Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan

Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan, KG, GCMG, CIE, OBE (* November 27, 1905; † 9 February 1985) was a British diplomat and autobiographer. As the last British High Commissioner, he left on 20 November 1967, the colony of Aden.

Trevelyan was of noble descent and attended Lancing College, a private school, and then Jesus College, University of Cambridge. After graduating, he entered the civil service and was employed until Indian independence in 1947 in this colony. He subsequently joined the Diplomatic Service and began his career in Beijing. After that, he was from 1955 to 1965 Ambassador to Egypt, in Iraq and in the Soviet Union. In 1967 he was High Commissioner of Crown Colony of Aden, but after the UK on military pressure supported by the population National Liberation Front ( NLF) had announced towards the independence in 1968, he had, when the situation was no longer under control, the country on 20 November 1967 left in a plane early to London.

He was made a Baron Trevelyan in the House of Lords in 1968.

He has written several books about his career.

Publications

• The Middle East in Revolution (1971 )
• Public and Private ( 1980)