Donald Tebbit

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

He attended The Perse School, Cambridge,[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 }} and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was president of the Trinity Hall alumni association, the Trinity Hall Association, 1984–1985.[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

He was Chief Clerk of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1973 to 1976,[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] 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.