Gladwyn Jebb
Secretary-General of the League of Nations) | |
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Succeeded by | Trygve Lie |
Personal details | |
Born | Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb 25 April 1900 Yorkshire, England |
Died | 24 October 1996 Suffolk, England | (aged 96)
Political party | Liberal (1960–1988) Liberal Democrats (from 1988) |
Other political affiliations | Liberal and Democratic Group (1973–1976) |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Relatives | Tatiana de Rosnay (granddaughter) |
Education | Sandroyd School Eton College |
Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
Early life and career
The son of Sydney Gladwyn Jebb JP, of Firbeck Hall, Yorkshire (a grandson of Sir Joshua Jebb and a maternal nephew of the 5th and 6th Viscounts Melville) and Rose Eleanor Chichester, Jebb attended Sandroyd School and Eton College before graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford with a first class honours degree in history.[1]
Jebb entered the
Personal life
In 1929, Jebb married
Second World War
For part of the
Acting UN Secretary-General
After the Second World War, Jebb served as Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations in August 1945 and served as Acting United Nations Secretary-General from October 1945 to February 1946, when the first Secretary-General was appointed, Trygve Lie.[3]
Jebb remains the only UN Secretary-General or Acting Secretary-General to come from a permanent member state of the
Ambassador
Returning to London, Jebb served as Deputy to the
Jebb became the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1950 to 1954 and to Paris from 1954 to 1960. He was the first permanent UN representative of the United Kingdom.[3] In the latter role, he was angered that secret negotiations between the British, French and Israelis in advance of the Suez invasion in 1956 took place at Sèvres without his knowledge and, in certain respects, that he was sidelined by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at the Paris "big power" summit in 1960.[4]
Jebb's rather "grand" manner caused Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to coin an epigram: "You're a deb, Sir Gladwyn Jebb".[4]
Political career
Jebb was
When asked in the early 1960s why he had joined the Liberal Party, he replied that the Liberals were a party without a
Death
Jebb died on 24 October 1996 at the age of 96, the 51st anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. He is buried at St Andrew's Church, Bramfield in Suffolk.[citation needed]
Honours
- in 1942)
- GCVO, 1957
- Companion of the Bath, 1947
- Grand Croix de la Légion d'Honneur, 1957
Publications and papers
Publications by Jebb include:
- Is Tension Necessary?, 1959
- Peaceful Coexistence, 1962
- The European Idea, 1966
- Half-way to 1984, 1967
- De Gaulle's Europe, or, Why the General says No, 1969
- Europe after de Gaulle, 1970
- The Memoirs of Lord Gladwyn, 1972
Jebb's papers were deposited at the Churchill Archives Centre of the University of Cambridge by his son, Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 2nd Baron Gladwyn, between 1998 and 2000.[6]
In popular culture
In an episode of The Goon Show broadcast on 16 February 1959 entitled "The Gold Plate Robbery", Major Bloodnok – in his rôle as 'the last British Ambassador in Marrakesh' – is heard to muse aloud "Now, for a kip on full Ambassador's pay. Gad! I wonder what old Gladwyn Jebb's doing".[7][8]
References
- ^ a b c Sean Greenwood, Titan at the Foreign Office: Gladwyn Jebb and the shaping of the modern world (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008), pp. 5–18
- ^ Harrison, E.D.R. (April 1999). "British Subversion in French East Africa, 1941-42: SOE's Todd Missions". The English Historical Review (Vol. 114, Issue 456). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f "Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb Gladwyn | British diplomat". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ OCLC 632082926.
- ^ "No. 42006". The London Gazette. 12 April 1960. p. 2651.
- ^ "The Papers of 1st Lord Gladwyn". Archivesearch. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ISBN 0-903895-64-1.
- ^ The Goon Show Site http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s09e16_the_gold_plate_robbery[dead link] Archived 4 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved at 11.07 on Thursday 12/8/21
Bibliography
- Greenwood, Sean (2008). Titan at the foreign office : Gladwyn Jebb and the shaping of the modern world. History of International Relations, Diplomacy, and Intelligence. Vol. 5. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. OCLC 231834519.
External links
- Cambridge Archives Centre – Gladwyn Papers
- A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Sir Gladwyn Jebb" is available for viewing at the Internet Archive