Stephen Tallents

Sir Stephen Tallents ( born October 20, 1884 in London, † September 11, 1958 in London) was a British government official.

In the First World War he served in the Irish Guards regiment and was severely wounded. After his recovery, he worked as a government official.

From 1919 to 1920, Tallents Head of the British Commission in the formerly belonging to Russia Baltic Baltic provinces, acted transiently in July 1919 as civil governor of Riga, and laid 1920, the land border between Estonia and Latvia firmly. He was then Secretary ( since 1920 ) of the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Edmund Fitzalan - Howard ( 1855-1947 ).

1928 to 1933 he served as secretary of the Empire Marketing Board (EMB). In 1932 he was raised to the peerage. Tallents was the first director of public relations at the BBC and later the deputy head under Lord Reith.