Sir David Francis Muirhead KCMG CVO (30 December 1918 – 3 February 1999) was a British diplomat, ambassador to Peru, Portugal and Belgium.
Muirhead was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent where he was a Cadet Serjeant in the Officers' Training Corps.
[1] In 1939, having passed the Officers Examination at RMC Sandhurst, he was appointed to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and served during the Second World War in France, Belgium and South-East Asia.
[2] He was appointed consul at La Paz in 1948,[3] and posted to Buenos Aires in 1949, Brussels in 1950, the Foreign Office in 1953, Washington in 1955 and the Foreign Office again in 1959, where he was Under-Secretary 1966–67.
[2] He was a Special Representative of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1979–94, was a member of the Council of St Dunstan's 1981–89 and a Commissioner of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 1981–86.