Humphrey Trevelyan

Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan,

HM Diplomatic Service upon Indian independence

in 1947, and had a distinguished career during which he held several important ambassadorships.

Biography

Trevelyan was born at the parsonage,

George Macaulay Trevelyan was a second cousin.^[1]

He was educated at

Indian Political Service in 1932.^[1]

He served in India until independence in 1947, then transferred to

HM Diplomatic Service. He held many key diplomatic posts, including chargé d'affaires in Beijing after the Revolution, ambassador to Egypt at the time of Suez, a development with which he was clearly uncomfortable, ambassador to Iraq at the time of the 1961 Kuwait crisis, Iraq's first attempt to annex Kuwait, and ambassador to the Soviet Union. On his retirement in 1965, he was offered the post of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which he declined in order that a younger man should be appointed.^[1]

He completed forty years of public service as the last high commissioner of Aden, having been coaxed out of retirement by Foreign Secretary George Brown, where he wound up British protection and oversaw the British withdrawal from what had been the Aden Protectorate and became South Yemen.^[1]

Trevelyan wrote a number of books about his career, including The India We Left and The Middle East in Revolution.^[1]

On 12 February 1968, he was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Trevelyan, of Saint Veep in the County of Cornwall.^[2]

Trevelyan married Violet Margaret (Peggy) Bartholomew, only daughter of General Sir William Henry Bartholomew, in 1937; they had two daughters.^[1]

Arms

Coat of arms of Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan, KG, GCMG, CIE, OBE
	Coronet An Baron's Coronet Crest Two arms embowed counter embowed vested Azure cuffed Argent holding in the hands proper a bezant. Escutcheon Gules issuant from a base barry wavy of six Argent and Azure a demi horse Argent crined and unguled Or. Supporters Two dolphins Azure finned and flippered Gules each crowned with a baron's coronet proper. Motto TYME TRYETH TROTH

References

^
doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31773. (Subscription or UK public library membership
required.)

^ "No. 44525". The London Gazette. 13 February 1968. p. 1783.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Leo Lamb	British Chargé d'affaires ad interim to the People's Republic of China 1953–1955	Succeeded by Con O'Neill
Preceded by Sir Ralph Stevenson	British Ambassador to Egypt 1955–1956	Suspended Suez Crisis Title next held by Colin Crowe as Chargé d'affaires
Preceded by Sir Michael Wright	British Ambassador to Iraq 1958–1961	Succeeded by Sir Roger Allen
Preceded by Sir Frank Roberts	British Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1962–1965	Succeeded by Sir Geoffrey Harrison
Preceded by Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull	High Commissioner of Aden 1967	Post abolished

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[ODNB-1] 
doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31773. (Subscription or UK public library membership
required.)

[2] "No. 44525". The London Gazette. 13 February 1968. p. 1783.

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Biography

Arms

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