George Wilmot Renchard Jr. (1907 Detroit, Michigan – January 15, 1982, Saudi Arabia)[1] was an American career foreign service officer, ambassador to Burundi (1968–1969), and U.S. consul general in Bermuda.
[2][3] Renchard graduated from Princeton University and entered the Foreign Service in 1930.
Dignitaries who stayed there include Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the king and queen of Afghanistan, the president of Bolivia and the prime minister of Ireland.
[2] They were considered "noted preservationists", particularly in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC.
[2] Renchard and his wife died in a 1982 traffic accident while visiting their son in Saudi Arabia.