Sedgwick, Richard Romney, son of Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., of Cambridge, by Laura Helen Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Capt. Robinson, of Armagh; b. May 29, 1894; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (G); K.S. 1909; elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1912, matric. Michaelmas 1912; 1st class Hist. Tripos, pt. 1, 1914; 1st class Hist. Tripos, pt. 2, 1915; Gladstone Memorial Prize 1914; B.A. 1915; M.A. 1920; Fellow of Trin. Coll. Camb. 1920; served in Ministry of Munitions 1916-8 and of Labour 1918-9; asst. principal 1919; transferred to Colonial Office 1929; private secretary to Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Dominions Office, 1922; principal 1930; official secretary, Office of High Commissioner, Australia, 1938-41 and New Zealand, 1941-4; Deputy High Commissioner, South Africa, 1946-9; Asst. Under Secretary of State 1949; C.M.G. Jan. 1, 1945; edited The Memoirs of the Reign ef King George II by John Lord Hervey (q.v.) (1931); The Letters of George III to Lord Bute (1939); m. Sept. 17, 1936, Mana, daughter of Thomas Callan Hodson, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge; d. 20 Jan. 1972.