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.

References

• TEBBIT, Sir Donald (Claude), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)

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

External links

• 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

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Sir Morrice James	High Commissioner to Australia 1976–1980	Succeeded by Sir John Mason