Burke Trend, Baron Trend

Burke Frederick St John Trend, Baron Trend GCB CVO PC(2 January 1914 – 21 July 1987)[1] was a British civil servant and later Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.

Trend was educated at Whitgift School and Merton College, Oxford, where he took first class honours in Classics.[2] He then joined the Civil Service, spending most of his career in the Treasury. He became Cabinet Secretary under both Harold Wilson and Ted Heath between 1963 to 1973.

Trend was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1953 Birthday Honours.[2][3] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1955 New Year Honours,[2][4] promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) in the 1962 Birthday Honours[2][5] and a Knight Grand Cross in the 1968 New Year Honours.[6] On 7 March 1974 he was created a life peer as Baron Trend, of Greenwich in Greater London.[7]

He led an investigation in the 1970s into allegations of penetration of the British Secret Services from before World War II until the 1960s. His conclusion was that there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations. Peter Wright in his memoirs, Spycatcher, discusses Trend and his report.[8]

Trend married Patricia Charlotte Shaw in 1949; they had three children.[2] The eldest of their three children was a daughter, Caroline; their son, Michael Trend, was a Member of Parliament(Conservative) in the period 1992-2005; and their other son, Dr. Patrick Trend, FRCP, has worked as a consultant neurologist.

References

  1. ↑ Lundy, Darryl. "Burke St John Trend, Baron Trend". The Peerage. External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 239.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 39863. p. 2947. 1 June 1953.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 40366. p. 4. 1 January 1955.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 42683. p. 4309. 2 June 1962.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44484. p. 3. 1 January 1968.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 46231. p. 3167. 11 March 1974.
  8. ↑ Peter Wright, Spycatcher. Viking Adult, 1987. ISBN 978-0-670-82055-9.
Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Norman Brook		 Cabinet Secretary
1963–1973 		Succeeded by
Sir John Hunt
Academic offices
Preceded by
Sir Walter Fraser Oakeshott		 Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford
1973–1983 		Succeeded by
Vivian H. H. Green


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