John Robert Hilton, CMG (5 January 1908 – 20 April 1994) was a British academic, architect and intelligence officer.
[2][3] He was educated at Marlborough College, then an all-boys private boarding school: he was there at the same time as Anthony Blunt, the future art historian and spy for the Soviet Union.
[3] Letters of correspondence between Hilton and the Antiquities Officer for Famagusta, Theophilus Amin Halil Mogabgab, exist in the archives of King's College London.
[1] Inexperienced in government administration, confusion over his exact role, and often sidelined by Rupert Gunnis, the inspector of antiquities for the Cyprus Museum, Hilton tended his resignation in July 1935 to take effect on 31 December 1935.
[2] He did another tour in Istanbul as first secretary from 1956 to 1960,[2] but otherwise spent his career with the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in London.