# Donald Tebbit

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'''Sir Donald Claude Tebbit''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG}}<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=48041 |date=28 December 1979 |supp=y |page=2}}</ref> (4 May 1920 – 25 September 2010<ref>[https://archive.today/20120701113309/http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=donald-tebbit&pid=145720749 Times obituary]</ref>) was a British [diplomat](/source/diplomat).

He attended The [Perse School](/source/Perse_School), Cambridge,<ref>[http://www.oldperseans.org/library/eminent-old-perseans.asp Eminent Old Perseans] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206100921/http://www.oldperseans.org/library/eminent-old-perseans.asp |date=6 December 2010 }}</ref> and [Trinity Hall, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_Hall%2C_Cambridge). He was president of the Trinity Hall alumni association, the Trinity Hall Association, 1984–1985.<ref>[http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni/associations/trinity-hall-association/detail.asp?ItemID=100 THA Committee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921134934/http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni/associations/trinity-hall-association/detail.asp?ItemID=100 |date=21 September 2015 }}, Trinity Hall, Cambridge</ref>

He was Chief Clerk of the [Foreign and Commonwealth Office](/source/Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Office) from 1973 to 1976,<ref>[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110108023323/http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about%2Dus/who%2Dwe%2Dare/our%2Dhistory/historical%2Dpublications/research%2Dprojects/people%2Dpolicy%2Dplaces/chief%2Dclerks Chief Clerks of the FCO]</ref> and British [High Commissioner](/source/High_Commissioner_(Commonwealth)) to [Australia](/source/Australia) 1976–80.

In 2009 he was appointed a Vice-President of the [Britain–Australia Society](/source/Britain%E2%80%93Australia_Society). On 25 September 2010 he died at age 90.

==References==
*[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U37214 TEBBIT, Sir Donald (Claude)], ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
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==External links==
*{{NPG name|name=Sir Donald Claude Tebbit (1920–2010), Diplomat}}
*[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8054050/Sir-Donald-Tebbit.html Sir Donald Tebbit ] (obituary), ''The Telegraph'', London, 10 October 2010

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