About George Ignatieff
Count George Pavlovich Ignatieff (Russian: Георгий Павлович Игнатьев, romanized: Georgy Pavlovich Ignatyev; 16 December 1913 – 10 August 1989) was a Russian-born Canadian diplomat. His career spanned nearly five decades in World War II and the postwar period. George Ignatieff was educated at St Paul's School, London, Lower Canada College, and the University of Trinity College, University of Toronto, before being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. In 1918, the year after the Russian Revolution, Count Ignatieff was imprisoned, but his release was negotiated by sympathetic supporters. With the advent of World War II, Ignatieff joined the Royal Artillery, where he worked in photographic intelligence.
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