David Gillmore, Baron Gillmore of Thamesfield

David Howe Gillmore, Baron Gillmore of Thamesfield, GCMG, (16 August 1934 – 20 March 1999) was a British diplomat. He retired in 1994 after a distinguished diplomatic career in which he was a leading light in John Major's extrication of the UK from its policy of confronting apartheid South Africa. He was educated at Trent College, Derbyshire, and King's College, Cambridge.