Sir Alan Hugh Campbell GCMG (1 July 1919 – 7 October 2007) was a British diplomat and civil servant.
He was British ambassador to Ethiopia from 1969 to 1972 and to Italy from 1976 to 1979, and also held senior posts in the Foreign Office in London.
Campbell's father had retired from the family business, Ibert & Co, and bought a large house, Combe Royal, near Kingsbridge on the south coast of Devon.
[1] He was fluent in French and German, and read modern languages at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
During his period as Private Secretary, the civil service was rocked by the defections of diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean.
He later worked as a foreign affairs advisor to Rolls-Royce, and was a director of National Westminster Bank and Mercantile and General Reinsurance.