Gladwyn Jebb

Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, of Bramfield, GCMG, GCVO, CB ( born April 25, 1900 in Firbeck Hall, England; † 24 October 1996 in Halesworth, England ) was a British politician and diplomat.

Life

Jebb attended Eton College and then studied at Magdalen College at Oxford University history. He completed his studies as one of the best in his class.

In 1924 he joined the British Diplomatic Service. He served in Tehran and Rome. Then he made the Foreign Office career. During and at the end of the Second World War, he took part in the conferences of Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam.

From 1945 to 1946 Jebb was the first Acting Secretary General of the United Nations, until the first elected Secretary-General of the Norwegian Trygve Lie, the business took over.

Jebb then worked again at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as Ambassador of the United Kingdom at the Brussels Pact. From 1950 to 1954 he was British ambassador to the UN. Thereafter, he practiced from 1954 to 1960 the office of Ambassador to France from.

In 1960, Jebb was elevated to the hereditary nobility. He then became Deputy Leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords. He held until 1988 this office. From 1973 to 1976 he was also a member of the European Parliament.

Family

Jebb was married since 1929 with Cynthia Noble, a great- great-granddaughter of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The couple had a son Miles, who succeeded his father as Baron, and two daughters: Vanessa is married to the historian Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton. His younger daughter Stella is married to the French biologist and entrepreneur Joel de Rosnay. Jebb died 1996.