Frank Brenchley

Frank Brenchley CMG
British Ambassador to Norway
In office 1968–1972
Preceded by	Sir Ian Scott
Succeeded by	Ralph Selby
British Ambassador to Poland
In office 1972–1974
Preceded by	Sir Nicholas Henderson
Succeeded by	Norman Reddaway
Personal details
Born	9 April 1918
Died	7 July 2011
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Edith Helen Helfand (d. 1980)
Children	three daughters
Alma mater	Merton College, Oxford

Dr (Thomas) Frank Brenchley CMG (9 April 1918 – 7 July 2011) was a British diplomat.

Frank Brenchley was educated at Sir William Turner's School, Coatham, North Yorkshire, and Merton College, Oxford. He served with the Royal Corps of Signals 1939–46 as an intelligence officer in the Middle East. He was assistant military attaché at Ankara 1943–45 while the spy Cicero was operating, and was Director, Telecommunications Liaison, Syria and Lebanon, 1945–46. After leaving the army he spent two years as a civil servant at GCHQ before transferring to the Foreign Office in 1949. He served in Singapore, Cairo, MECAS, Khartoum and Jeddah before returning to London as Head of the Arabian Department of the Foreign Office 1963–67 and then Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1967–68.

Brenchley was Ambassador to Norway 1968–72,Ambassador to Poland 1972–74 and finally Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office, 1975–76. He retired from the Diplomatic Service and became Deputy Secretary-General and then Chief Executive of the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce 1976–83. He was chairman of the Institute for Study of Conflict 1983–89, chairman of the Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism 1989–94, and also president of the International Institute for the Study of Conflict in Geneva 1989–91.

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