Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan

Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan, (27 November 1905 – 9 February 1985) was a British colonial administrator, diplomat and writer. Having begun his career in the Indian Civil Service and Indian Political Service, he transferred to HM Diplomatic Service upon Indian independence in 1947, and had a distinguished career during which he held several important ambassadorships.

Biography Trevelyan was born at the parsonage, Hindhead, Surrey, the younger son of the Reverend George Trevelyan, great-grandson of the Venerable George Trevelyan, Archdeacon of Taunton, third son of Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet. His elder brother John Trevelyan was the Secretary of the Board of the British Board of Film Censors. The historian George Macaulay Trevelyan was a second cousin.

He was educated at Lancing and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read Classics. After Cambridge, Trevelyan joined the Indian Civil Service in 1929, transferring to the Indian Political Service in 1932.

Trevelyan wrote a number of books about his career, including The Middle East in Revolution (1970) and The India We Left (1972). He was introduced to the House of Lords on 21 February 1968.

Trevelyan married Violet Margaret "Peggy" Bartholomew, only daughter of General Sir William Henry Bartholomew, in 1937; they had two daughters.

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