Heyward Isham

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Heyward Isham
Born
Henry Heyward Isham

(1926-11-04)November 4, 1926
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 18, 2009(2009-06-18) (aged 82)
Southampton, New York, U.S.
EducationPhillips Academy,
Yale University
Spouse(s)Sheila Eaton Isham
Children3, including Chris Isham

Henry Heyward Isham (4 November 1926 – 18 June 2009), was an American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer and editor. He was the negotiator who played an important role in the talks with North Vietnam that led to the Peace accord of 1973.[1]

Biography[]

Heyward Isham was born in New York City on 4 November 1926, to father Ralph Heyward Isham, a noted retired British Army officer and collector of rare books.[2][3] He graduated from Phillips Academy.[3]

Isham studied International Relations at Yale University, graduating in 1947 before being posted to the American Embassy in Berlin during the Cold War.[1] From 1955 through 1957, he was chief of the consular section and political office at the United States Embassy in Moscow.[4] From 1974 to 1977, after a posting in Hong Kong, Isham was the American ambassador to Haiti.[1]

After his retirement from the diplomatic service he worked as an editor with Doubleday publishers.[1] During this period he supervised the publication of the memoirs of Andrei A. Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister from 1957 to 1985, and other books by Russians.[4]

Personal life[]

He was married to the artist Sheila (née Eaton) with whom he had three children.[3][1] Son Christopher Isham was named Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief for CBS News in July 2007. Son Ralph Heyward Isham is a former Fellow with the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the SALT II treaty hearings, he also served on the staffs of Congressman James W. Symington and Senator Edward Brooke. Daughter Sandra Isham Vreeland was a poet and the director of an AIDS poetry project for youth, she died in 1996.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Martin Weil, "Deft peace negotiator whose other side did not spare the rod" The Age (16 July 2009): 19.
  2. ^ "Ralph Heyward Isham, American collector". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Miss Sheila Eaton Engaged to Marry; Senior at Bryn Mawr Fiancee of Heyward Isham, Son of Noted Book Collector". Times Machine. The New York Times. April 3, 1950. p. 31. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Hevesi, Dennis (2009-06-23). "Heyward Isham, a Negotiator With Hanoi, Dies at 82". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
  5. ^ "Sandra I. Vreeland, Poetry Director, 38". The New York Times. 1996-08-06. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-01.


Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Clinton E. Knox 		United States Ambassador to Haiti
1973–1974 		Succeeded by
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