Donald Tebbit

Sir Donald Claude Tebbit GCMG[1] (4 May 1920 – 25 September 2010[2]) was a British diplomat.

He attended The Perse School, Cambridge,[3] and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was president of the Trinity Hall alumni association, the Trinity Hall Association, 1984–1985.[4]

He was Chief Clerk of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1973 to 1976,[5] and British High Commissioner to Australia 1976–80.

In 2009 he was appointed a Vice-President of the Britain–Australia Society. On 25 September 2010 he died at age 90.

  1. ^ "No. 48041". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1979. p. 2.
  2. ^ Times obituary
  3. ^ Eminent Old Perseans Archived 6 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ THA Committee Archived 21 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
  5. ^ Chief Clerks of the FCO