Burke Trend

Trend was educated at Whitgift School and Merton College, Oxford, where he took first class honours in Classics.

He became Cabinet Secretary under Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson and Ted Heath between 1963 and 1973.

Trend was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1953 Coronation Honours.

[6] On 7 March 1974 he was created a life peer as Baron Trend, of Greenwich in Greater London.

[7] He led an investigation in the 1970s into allegations of penetration of the British Secret Services from before World War II until the 1960s.