Sir Humphrey John Hamilton Maud KCMG (17 April 1934 – 10 November 2013) was a British diplomat.
[1] He attended Eton College, where he was a favourite of Benjamin Britten - Britten dedicated The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra to Humphrey and his siblings - though Humphrey's father eventually intervened to stop him spending so much time with Britten during the holidays.
[2] Maud studied classics and history at King's College, Cambridge.
After a year teaching classics at the University of Minnesota, he entered the Foreign Service in 1959.
[3] In 1993 he became Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General with responsibility for economic and social affairs,[1] holding the post until he retired in 1999.