Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan

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Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan, KG, GCMG, CIE, OBE (27 November 1905 – 9 February 1985) was a British diplomat and author.

Trevelyan was a son of Reverend George Trevelyan, grandson of the Venerable George Trevelyan, Archdeacon of Taunton, third son of Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (see Trevelyan Baronets for earlier history of the family). He was educated at Lancing College and Jesus College, Cambridge. After Cambridge Trevelyan joined the Indian Civil Service. He served in India until independence in 1947, then transferred to HM Diplomatic Service. He held many key diplomatic posts, including charge in Beijing after the Revolution, ambassador to Egypt at the time of Suez, ambassador to Iraq at the time of the 1961 Kuwait crisis, Iraq's first attempt to annex Kuwait, and ambassador to the Soviet Union. He completed forty years of public service as the last high commissioner of Aden, where he wound up British rule and oversaw the British withdrawal from what had been the Aden Protectorate and became South Yemen.

Trevelyan wrote a number of books about his career, including 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
Preceded by ?	British Chargé d'affaires to China 1953–1955	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by Sir Ralph Stevenson	British Ambassador to Egypt 1955–1956	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by ?	British Ambassador to Iraq 1958–1961	Succeeded by Sir Roger Allen
Preceded by Sir Frank Roberts	British Ambassador to Russia 1962–1965	Succeeded by Sir Geoffrey Harrison
Preceded by Sir Richard Turnbull	High Commissioner of Aden 1967	Succeeded by Post abolished