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Anthony Nutting

Sir Harold Anthony Nutting (January 11, 1920 - February 24, 1999) was a British politician and diplomat.

Nutting was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as a secretary to Anthony Eden and as an attaché at the British Embassy in Paris. When France fell in World War II, he assisted in the evacuation of women and children and organised intelligence and escape lines for allied personnel in Spain. He joined the Embassy in Rome in 1944-45.

Nutting was MP for Melton from 1945. He served as chairman of the Young Conservatives 1946-47. He resigned in 1956 in protest against the Suez invasion. He was a founding member of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU) in 1967.

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