Humphrey Maud
Sir Humphrey John Hamilton Maud was a British diplomat.
Life
Humphrey Maud was the son of the civil servant and diplomat John Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud and his wife, the pianist Jean Hamilton. He attended Eton College, where he was a favourite of Benjamin Britten - Britten dedicated The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra to Humphrey and his siblings - though Humphrey's father eventually intervened to stop him spending so much time with Britten during the holidays.Maud studied classics and history at King's College, Cambridge. After a year teaching classics at the University of Minnesota, he entered the Foreign Service in 1959.
Maud was the British List of ambassadors of [the United Kingdom to Luxembourg|Ambassador] to Luxembourg from 1982 to 1985, and the British List of [Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Argentina|Ambassador] to Argentina from 1990 to 1993. In 1993 he became Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General with responsibility for economic and social affairs, holding the post until he retired in 1999.