 He transferred to Chile in 1961 as Second, then First Secretary at Santiago.In 1963, he returned to England again to become Private Secretary to Caccia again, in the latter's post as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, before moving to Madrid as Head of the Chancery in 1966.After a brief secondment at the Cabinet Office from 1971–73, he became Head of the News Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and then Head of the North American Department in 1974, before becoming a Counsellor at Paris in 1975 and was awarded the CMG in 1978.