Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen KCMG (26 March 1886 21 March 1971) was a British diplomat, civil servant and author. He was the second son of Reverend Reginald Bridges Knatchbull-Hugessen, son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 9th Baronet, and his second wife Rachel Mary, daughter of Admiral Sir Alexander Montgomery, 3rd Baronet. Knatchbull-Hugessen was educated at Eton College and then at Balliol College, Oxford, where he befriended Anthony Eden and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1907.