Sir Stephen Lewis Holmes KCMG MC (5 July 1896 – 20 April 1980) was a British diplomat who became High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Australia from 1952 to 1956.
Between 1916 and 1919 he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the First World War in France and Belgium, and was awarded the Military Cross, and mentioned twice in despatches.
In 1943–1944, he was Dominions Office representative in Washington, and thereafter Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Canada (1944–1946).
In 1952 Holmes was appointed High Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom, a post which he held until 1956.
[1] Basil's brother, Wilfred Gladstone Holmes, died in 1913 while serving as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery.