Trevor Ashmore Pyman was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n diplomat.

He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School

Caulfield Grammar School

Caulfield Grammar School is an independent, co-educational, Anglican, day and boarding school, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as a boys' school, Caulfield began admitting girls exactly one hundred years later...

 and the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

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. He joined the Australian Diplomatic Service
in 1944, and during his fourteen year period in the ADS he worked with Dr H.V. Evatt as part of the Australian Delegation to form the United Nations

United Nations

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. He later worked as Australia's Acting High Commissioner

High Commissioner

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 to Ottawa

Ottawa

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, Canada

Canada

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, and as Head of Chancery and Counsellor at the Australian Embassy

Diplomatic mission

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 in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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. While in Washington he also served as one of Australia's representatives to the United Nations General Assembly

United Nations General Assembly

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 in New York City

New York City

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His article "The United Nations Secretary-Generalship" was published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs in 1961.