David Muirhead

Sir David Francis Muirhead (30 December 1918 – 3 February 1999) was a British diplomat, ambassador to Peru, Portugal and Belgium.

Career Muirhead was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent where he was a Cadet Serjeant in the Officers' Training Corps. He was commissioned in the Artists Rifles in 1937 with the rank of second lieutenant. In 1946 he passed the Foreign Service Examination and was appointed to the Foreign Office. and posted to Buenos Aires in 1949, Brussels in 1950, the Foreign Office in 1953, Washington in 1955 and the Foreign Office again in 1959, where he was Under-Secretary 1966–67. CMG in 1964, and knighted KCMG in 1976. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Portuguese Military Order of Christ and the Grand Cross of the Peruvian Order of Distinguished Service.

Personal life In 1942 David Muirhead married the Hon. Elspeth Hope-Morley, daughter of the 2nd Baron Hollenden and Lady Hollenden, née the Hon. Mary Gardner, daughter of Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere. They had two sons and one daughter. Lady Muirhead (as she became) died in 1989.