Sir Harold Smedley KCMG, MBE (19 June 1920 – 16 February 2004) was a British diplomat who was envoy to several countries.
Smedley was high commissioner in Ghana 1964–67[1] (with a break from December 1965 to March 1966 when the Ghanaian president, Kwame Nkrumah, broke off diplomatic relations over Rhodesia).
After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, Smedley was chairman of the London board of Bank of New Zealand (1983–89) and a member of West Sussex County Council (1989–93).
[8] During his first posting to Wellington, New Zealand, Smedley met and married Beryl Harley Brown.
As Beryl Smedley she wrote Partners in Diplomacy: The Changing Face of the Diplomat's Wife (Harley Press, 1990, ISBN 0951646206).