Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan

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Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan, KG, GCMG, CIE, OBE (27 November 19059 February 1985) was a British diplomat and author.

Trevelyan was a son of Rev. George Trevelyan and was educated at Lancing College and Jesus College, Cambridge.

He served as High Commissioner of South Arabia in 1967, and wrote The India We Left.

In 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.

Diplomatic posts
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British Chargé d'affaires to China
1953–1955
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Sir Ralph Stevenson
British Ambassador to Egypt
1955–1956
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British Ambassador to Iraq
1958–1961
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Sir Roger Allen
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Sir Frank Roberts
British Ambassador to Russia
1962–1965
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Sir Geoffrey Harrison
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High Commissioner of Aden
1967
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