Sir Anthony Reeve, KCMG, KCVO (20 October 1938 – 6 November 2014[1]) was a British diplomat and ambassador.
After short stints at the Huddersfield glazing firm Heywood-Helliwell Ltd and Blackminster County Secondary School, Evesham, he entered Lever Brothers as a management trainee in 1962.
During his time in the United States he wrote two light-hearted novels, Embassy and A Diplomatic Affair, under the pseudonym James Horbury.
He was then appointed as Ambassador to South Africa, during which time he pressured the government of F. W. de Klerk to discontinue the country’s chemical and biological weapons programmes.
[8] This appointment recognised the 1995 visit to South Africa by Queen Elizabeth II which Reeve, as High Commissioner of the country, was involved in organising.