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{{Short description|British civil servant}}
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'''Burke Frederick St John Trend, Baron Trend''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|CVO|PC}} (2 January 1914 – 21 July 1987)<ref>{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p19192.htm |title= Burke St John Trend, Baron Trend |publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=September 2012}}</ref> was a British [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|civil servant]] and later [[Rector (college)|Rector]] of [[Lincoln College, Oxford]].

==Biography==
Trend was educated at [[Whitgift School]] and [[Merton College, Oxford]], where he took first class honours in Classics.<ref name="MCreg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=239}}</ref> He then joined the [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|Civil Service]], spending most of his career in the [[Treasury]]. He became [[Cabinet Secretary (United Kingdom)|Cabinet Secretary]] under [[Alec Douglas-Home]], [[Harold Wilson]] and [[Ted Heath]] between 1963 and 1973.

Trend was appointed a [[Commander of the Royal Victorian Order]] (CVO) in the [[1953 Coronation Honours]].<ref name=MCreg /><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=39863 |date=1 June 1953 |page=2947 |supp=y}}</ref> He was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] (CB) in the [[1955 New Year Honours]],<ref name=MCreg /><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40366 |date=1 January 1955 |page=4 |supp=y}}</ref> promoted to [[Knight Commander]] (KCB) in the [[1962 Birthday Honours]]<ref name=MCreg /><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=42683 |date=2 June 1962 |page=4309 |supp=y}}</ref> and a [[Knight Grand Cross]] in the [[1968 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=44484 |date=1 January 1968 |page=3 |supp=y}}</ref> On 7 March 1974 he was created a [[life peer]] as '''Baron Trend''', of [[Greenwich]] in Greater London.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=46231 |date=11 March 1974 |page=3167}}</ref>

He led an investigation in the 1970s into allegations of penetration of the British Secret Services from before [[World War II]] until the 1960s. His conclusion was that there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations. [[Peter Wright (MI5 officer)|Peter Wright]] in his memoirs, ''[[Spycatcher]]'', discusses Trend and his report.<ref>[[Peter Wright (MI5 officer)|Peter Wright]], ''[[Spycatcher]]''. [[Viking Adult]], 1987. {{ISBN|978-0-670-82055-9}}.</ref>

Trend married Patricia Charlotte Shaw in 1949; they had three children.<ref name=MCreg /> One son, [[Michael Trend]], was a [[Member of Parliament]] ([[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]) from 1992 to 2005.
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|escutcheon = Tierced per pale Azure Argent and Vert three piles one issuing from the dexter and two from the sinister Or each charged with an estoile Azure.
|crest = Upon a wreath Azure and Vert two martlets respectant supporting between their beaks Or a torch Sable inflamed Proper.
|supporters = Two cats Ermine each gorged with a collar Or charged with six estoiles (three manifest) Azure.
|motto = Ardi Contento Etaoi <ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=1985}}</ref>}}

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| title = [[Cabinet Secretary (United Kingdom)|Cabinet Secretary]]
| years = 1963–1973
| before = [[Norman Brook, 1st Baron Normanbrook|Sir Norman Brook]]
| after = [[John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth|Sir John Hunt]]
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| before=[[Walter Fraser Oakeshott|Sir Walter Fraser Oakeshott]]
| title=[[Rector (college)|Rector]] of [[Lincoln College, Oxford]]
| years=1973–1983
| after=[[Vivian H. H. Green]]}}
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