Neville Hugo Sale Judd CVO, QSO.

• Author: McGibbon, Ian
• Position: Obituary

NEVILLE HUGO SALE JUDD CVO, QSO

27 December 1939-2 May 2017

Hugo Judd's death at Mapua in early May has deprived the NZILA. of one of its most effective supporters. He made a major contribution to the organisation by extending its profile into a region in which it had not hitherto been present. Not only did he play a key role in the formation of the Nelson branch but also, over the next six years, he helped build it into one of the NZIIA's strongest and most active.

Born in Victoria, Canada in 1939, Hugo came to New Zealand with his family in 1946. He was educated at Cathedral Grammar School, Christ's College and Canterbury University College, graduating with a BA in 1961; he then went to Oxford University, where he gained another BA in 1963, as well as winning a blue for gymnastics.

He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1964 and was back in Europe two years later as a junior diplomat in New Zealand's Mission to the United Nations in Geneva. In 1968, he was sent from there to the New Zealand Embassy in Saigon. Back in Wellington in 1971, he spent the next three years in the now Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Economic Division. After a stint in Moscow as charge d'affaires in New Zealand's reopened post there in 1973-74, he had another head office role...