Donald Trefusis

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{{Infobox character

|name=Donald Trefusis

|first=Loose Ends (radio series)

|creator=Stephen Fry

|occupation=Regius Professor of Philology at the University of Cambridge and Extraordinary Fellow of St. Matthew's CollegeHollander, Samuel [https://books.google.com/books?id=VStbBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22donald+trefusis%22+%22extraordinary+fellow%22&pg=PA1 Ricardo – The New View]. Routledge, 1995; p. 1

|relatives=Phillip (nephew)

}}

Professor Donald Cornwallis Treadway Trefusis (1921–2008) is an eccentric fictional character created by Stephen Fry.

He initially appeared as an occasional contributor of "wireless essays" to Ned Sherrin's BBC Radio 4 programme Loose Ends in 1986. Trefusis was portrayed as a senior tutor at the fictional St Matthew's College and professor of philology at the University of Cambridge. He is an important character in the novel The Liar.{{cite web |url=http://atticusreview.org/a-carnival-for-anglophiles-a-review-of-the-liar-by-stephen-fry/ |title=A Carnival for Anglophiles: A Review of The Liar by Stephen Fry |last1=Thorne |first1=Rhiannon |date=July 4, 2015 |website=Atticus Review |publisher=Atticus Books |access-date=16 December 2015 }} Transcripts of the Loose Ends broadcasts were published as essays in Paperweight.{{cite book |url=http://books.telegraph.co.uk/Product/Stephen-Fry/Paperweight/144521 |title=Paperweight by Stephen Fry |author= |website=Telegraph Bookshop |date=8 May 2004 |publisher=Telegraph Media Group |isbn=978-0-09-945702-2 |access-date=16 December 2015 }}

In addition to a propensity for taking very liberal positions on a range of social issues, as when he states his credentials as "a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance,"Fry, Stephen Paperweight. Mandarin, 1992; p. 59 the greetings and salutations to his broadcasts almost always consist of a non-sequitur (e.g. "Hugely so to you all [...] And if you have been, then it was").

In 2009 Trefusis returned from the grave in a new audio series The Dongle of Donald Trefusis.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS71301+27-May-2009+MW20090527 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222100815/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS71301+27-May-2009+MW20090527 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |title=Stephen Fry and IODA Partner for The Dongle of Donald Trefusis |author= |date=May 27, 2009 |website=Reuters |publisher=Thomson Reuters |access-date=16 December 2015 }} He also manifested on Twitter.{{cite web|title=@donaldtrefusis|url=https://twitter.com/donaldtrefusis|publisher=Twitter}}