Burke Frederick St John Trend, Baron Trend, (2 January 1914 – 21 July 1987) was a British civil servant and later

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of Lincoln College, Oxford. Trend was educated at

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and Merton College, Oxford, where he took first class honours in Classics. He then joined the Civil Service, spending most of his career in the

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. He became Cabinet Secretary under both Harold Wilson and

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between 1963 and 1973. Trend was appointed a

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(CVO) in the

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. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1955 New Year Honours, promoted to

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(KCB) in the 1962 Birthday Honours and a

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in the

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. On 7 March 1974 he was created a life peer as Baron Trend, of

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in Greater London. He led an investigation in the 1970s into allegations of penetration of the British Secret Services from before

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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. Peter Wright, '' Spycatcher''. Viking Adult, 1987. . Trend married Patricia Charlotte Shaw in 1949; they had three children. One son, Michael Trend, was a

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(

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) from 1992 to 2005.

References

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