Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon

Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon ( born October 8, 1907 in Plymouth, England; † September 5, 1990 at Plymouth ) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat.

Biography

Foot was the son of Isaac Foot, a member of the House of the Liberal Party and brother of Sir Dingle Foot, Lord John Foot and later chairman of the Labour Party Michael Foot, who also were members of the House. Because of their belonging to the political left setting, the brothers later became known as "The Three Left Feet ".

Unlike his brothers, however, Hugh Foot struck a political career, but joined in 1929 the colonial government service, where he first from 1929 to 1939 using in Palestine and then to 1943 found in Transjordan. For his service in the colonial administration him the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE) in 1939 was awarded.

In 1943, he joined as a lieutenant colonel in the British Army and was for a short time Military Administrator of Cyrenaica. In the same year he became colonial secretary in Cyprus, and clothed 1945-1947 the Office of the Colonial Secretary in Jamaica. He was then an employee of the colonial administration in Nigeria, where he witnessed the growth of the idea for state sovereignty.

He then returned to Jamaica, where in 1951 he was Governor of the Crown Colony on April 7 and occupy this position Captain-General until November 18, 1957.

In 1957 he took over as successor to John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, the governor of Cyprus, where he sought the reconciliation between Greeks and Turks, and devised a plan for a peaceful settlement of the independence of Cyprus, on 16 August 1960 was performed. Foot so that was the last British Governor of Cyprus.

After the independence of Cyprus In 1961 he was appointed British representative at the United Nations and there at the same time as Chief Advisor for the creation of new states. In 1962, he resigned in protest against the British Rhodesia Policy, but returned in 1963 back to the UN and the Special Adviser on Africa's development as well as representatives for the apartheid in South Africa.

After the election of the Labour Party under Harold Wilson him the dignity of a life peer in 1964 as Baron Caradon was awarded. During the reign of Wilson, he was also 1964-1970 Permanent Representative to the UN in New York City. After retiring in 1970 he remained until 1975, working as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme in New York City.

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