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.
References
edit- TEBBIT, Sir Donald (Claude), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
- ^ "No. 48041". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1979. p. 2.
- ^ Times obituary
- ^ Eminent Old Perseans Archived 6 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ THA Committee Archived 21 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- ^ Chief Clerks of the FCO
External links
edit- Portraits of Sir Donald Claude Tebbit (1920–2010), Diplomat at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Sir Donald Tebbit (obituary), The Telegraph, London, 10 October 2010
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