Geoffrey de Freitas

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Sir Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas, KCMG (7 April 1913-10 August 1982) was a British politician and diplomat.

For many years a Labour Member of Parliament, he also served as British High Commissioner in Accra and Nairobi, and later as President of the Council of Europe.

Geoffrey de Freitas was the son of Sir Anthony and Lady (Edith) de Freitas.

Sir Anthony was Chief Justice of St. Vincent in Geoffrey's youth, and later of British Guiana, having held a variety of legal and administrative posts in the British West Indies.

After boarding school at Haileybury in England, de Freitas went to his father's old college: Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a successful student and athlete, and was president of the Cambridge Union for a term.