Sir Nicholas Maxted Fenn GCMG (19 February 1936 – 18 September 2016)[1] was a British diplomat.
Fenn served as a RAF pilot in the 1950s before his diplomatic and civil service career.
[4] Fenn entered the Foreign Office in 1959 and worked as secretaries at various posts overseas, spokesperson at the FCO and as counselor at the British Embassy in Peking.
Fenn was fluent in Burmese after undergoing training in 1960 and assigned to Burma in the early 1960s.
[6] From 1972 to 1975 he was with the Energy Department (as Deputy Head) in the Foreign Office and at the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1978.