Sir Donald Hawley KCMG MBE (22 May 1921 – 31 January 2008) was a British colonial lawyer, diplomat and writer.
At the outbreak of World War II, about to go to university, he volunteered for the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry but was told to continue to university: he went to New College, Oxford where he took a four-term wartime degree in law.
In 1941, he joined the Royal Artillery "without Army pay and allowances whilst specially employed"[1] because he was with Sudanese troops in North Africa.
After two years in the Foreign Office he was posted as Political Agent to the Trucial States, based in Dubai, 1958–62, then to Cairo 1962–65 and Lagos 1965–67.
In retirement Sir Donald and Lady Hawley lived at Little Cheverell, Wiltshire, and he wrote a history of the village.