Trafford Smith
Trafford Smith, CMG was an administrator, diplomat, colonial civil servant, and military lieutenant who served in colonial office in Malta and Burma.
He began his career in the colonial office in 1935 and was moved to Fiji in 1938. He was made assistant British Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides in 1940, and for British Solomon Island in the same year and for the Gilbert and Ellis Islands from 1941; and he was secretary of the Soulbury Commission on Constitutional Reform Ceylon 1944 to 1945.
He was assistant secretary in the colonial office in 1945 and was in the British delegation to the United Nations, New York, special general assembly regarding Palestine in 1948. He was the lieutenant governor of Malta and also served as acting governor. Following his departure from Malta in 1959, he was assistant secretary of the Commonwealth Office until 1967, and in that year he served as Ambassador to Burma.
