Penelope Tremayne (1921-2019) was a traveller, writer, global security expert, and poet.
Tremayne was born in 1921 and throughout her life worked for British intelligence, wrote for the Times, and authored several books. Her book 1988 book A Writer or Something was an autobiographical account of her five-week long kidnap by Tamil guerrillas in 1986 and recounted her life in Italy, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, where she worked for the Red Cross during the EOKA terrorist campaign. She was married to a contract officer, who worked in the Sultan of Oman's army. Tremayne reported on the progress of the Dhofar war.
She was the daughter of Air Marshal Sir John Tremayne (1891-1979), formerly John Babington, She married Tony Willis in 1960. Tremayne was also nurse and a worker for the Red Cross. She lived in Cornwall.