Sir Walter Leonard Allinson KCVO CMG (1 May 1926 – 28 December 2022) was a British civil servant and diplomat.
Allinson was born on 1 May 1926, the only son of Walter Allinson and Alice Frances Cassidy of Tottenham, and educated at Friern Barnet Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford, graduating in 1944[1] with a first-class degree in history.
[4] In November 1979 the British High Commission in Lusaka was stormed by a mob of students, and Allinson returned home.
[4] Allinson retired to Wendron, Cornwall, where he became treasurer for a regional branch of the Red Cross, treasurer of the local parish church, and a governor of Wendron School.
Crest: Upon a Helm with a Wreath Or and Azure A demi Asian Black Bear proper playing a Set of Bagpipes Or the cords Sable the bag in Gordon tartan also proper.