David Treffry, OBE, (7 October 1926 – 3 April 2000) was a British[1] colonial servant, international financier and High Sheriff of Cornwall.
[2] He achieved senior posts, and as Cabinet Secretary to the South Arabian Federation was involved in the independence negotiations.
[1][2] David Treffry moved to Washington D. C. in 1968 to work for the International Monetary Fund, remaining there for 21 years.
[1] Treffry retired to his ancestral home of Place in Fowey in 1987, where he played a conspicuous part in Cornish public life, becoming High Sheriff in 1991, president of the Royal Institution of Cornwall in 1993, and oversaw the inauguration in 1994 by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh of the Royal Cornwall Museum.
[1] In 1997 he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, but continued to play an active rôle in Cornish public and social life until his death at Truro in 2000.