Matthew John Lushington Kirk (born 10 October 1960) is a British

United Kingdom

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 diplomat. He was the British Ambassador to Finland from August 22, 2002 until he resigned from the Diplomatic Service in 2006 to take up a position as Director of External Relationships for Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

.

The youngest son of Sir Peter Michael Kirk

Peter Michael Kirk

Sir Peter Michael Kirk, was a British Conservative politician and a junior minister in the governments of Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath....

 MP, Kirk was educated at Felsted School

Felsted School

Felsted School, an English co-educational day and boarding independent school, situated in Felsted, Essex. It is in the British Public School tradition, and was founded in 1564 by Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich who, as Lord Chancellor and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, acquired...

 and St John's College, Oxford

St John's College, Oxford

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. In 1989, he married Anna Thérèse Macey, with whom he has two children.

External links

• British Embassy, Helsinki