Baron Gladwyn
Baron Gladwyn, of Bramfield in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created in 1960 for the prominent civil servant and diplomat Gladwyn Jebb. He was Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1945 to 1946 and British Ambassador to France between 1954 and 1960.
The title became extinct in 2017[2] on the death of his son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1996.
Barons Gladwyn (1960)
- Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn (1900–1996)
- Miles Alvery Gladwyn Jebb, 2nd Baron Gladwyn (1930–2017)
References
- "No. 42006". The London Gazette. 12 April 1960. p. 2651.
- Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2017
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
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