Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician who served as the acting secretary-general of the United Nations between 1945 and 1946.
13 Facts About Gladwyn Jebb
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The son of Sydney Jebb, of Firbeck Hall, Yorkshire, Jebb attended Sandroyd School and Eton College before graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford with a first class honours in history.
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Gladwyn Jebb entered the British Diplomatic Service in 1924 and served in Tehran, where he became known to Harold Nicolson and to Vita Sackville-West.
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Gladwyn Jebb later served in Rome as well as at the Foreign Office in London, where he served in such positions as Private Secretary to the Head of the Diplomatic Service.
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Gladwyn Jebb remains the only UN Secretary-General or Acting Secretary-General to come from a permanent member state of the UN Security Council.
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Gladwyn Jebb represented the United Kingdom at the Brussels Treaty Permanent Commission with personal rank of ambassador.
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Gladwyn Jebb became the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1950 to 1954 and to Paris from 1954 to 1960.
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On 12 April 1960 Jebb was created a hereditary peer and as Baron Gladwyn, of Bramfield in the County of Suffolk.
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Gladwyn Jebb was Deputy Leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords from 1965 to 1988 and spokesman on foreign affairs and defence.
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Gladwyn Jebb unsuccessfully contested the Suffolk seat in the European Parliament in 1979.
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Gladwyn Jebb died on 24 October 1996 at the age of 96, the 51st anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.
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Gladwyn Jebb is buried at St Andrew's Church, Bramfield in Suffolk.
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The papers of 1st Lord Gladwyn Jebb were deposited at Churchill Archives Centre at the University of Cambridge by his son, 2nd Lord Gladwyn Jebb, between 1998 and 2000.