as a hereditary peer 12 April 1960 – 24 October 1996
Member of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom
In office 1973–1976
British Ambassador to France
In office 1954–1960
Preceded by
Sir Oliver Harvey
Succeeded by
Sir Pierson Dixon
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
In office 1950–1954
Preceded by
Sir Alexander Cadogan
Succeeded by
Sir Pierson Dixon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Acting
In office 24 October 1945 – 2 February 1946
Preceded by
Seán Lester (as Secretary-General of the League of Nations)
Succeeded by
Trygve Lie
Personal details
Born
Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb
(1900-04-25)25 April 1900 Yorkshire, England
Died
24 October 1996(1996-10-24) (aged 96) Suffolk, England
Political party
Liberal (1960–1988) Liberal Democrats (from 1988)
Other political affiliations
Liberal and Democratic Group (1973–1976)
Spouse
Cynthia Noble
(m. 1929; died 1990)
Children
3
Relatives
Tatiana de Rosnay (granddaughter)
Education
Sandroyd School Eton College
Alma mater
Magdalen College, Oxford
Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron GladwynGCMG GCVO CB PC (25 April 1900 – 24 October 1996) was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician who served as the acting secretary-general of the United Nations between 1945 and 1946.
Hubert Miles GladwynJebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn GCMG GCVO CB PC (25 April 1900 – 24 October 1996) was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician...
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Joshua GladwynJebb of Barnby Moor House, born 1839. He was father of Captain Sydney GladwynJebb JP, of Firbeck Hall, and grandfather of GladwynJebb of...
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in Iranian Azerbaijan and British forces in Greece. British diplomat GladwynJebb served as interim secretary-general. The General Assembly selected New...
Tatiana's mother is English, Stella Jebb, daughter of diplomat and former Secretary-General of the United Nations, GladwynJebb, and great-great-granddaughter...
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Intelligence Service members and Foreign Office staff that included GladwynJebb, Earl Jellicoe, and MI6 Chief Peter Dwyer and a Balkans specialist.[citation...
Assembly opened on 10 January 1946 at the Methodist Central Hall in London. GladwynJebb, executive secretary of the UN, notified Dr. Eduardo Zuleta Angel, head...
to be director of the new organisation, and a senior civil servant, GladwynJebb, transferred from the Foreign Office to it, with the title of Chief Executive...
asked for a message to be passed to his mother, now dead. Together with GladwynJebb he helped to negotiate the Italian armistice in August 1943, between...
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Connolly's social circle expanded with new friends like Bob Boothby and GladwynJebb. However, he was ill at ease and in April 1928 set off for Paris, where...
In April 1939, during a secret meeting with the British diplomat Sir GladwynJebb, Goerdeler stated that if the British continued with their "containment"...
August 1950 Soviet Union Yakov Malik September 1950 United Kingdom GladwynJebb October 1950 United States Warren Austin November 1950 Yugoslavia Aleš...
in 1844, and in 1887, Henry GladwynJebb commissioned the builders E I Hubbard of Rotherham to enlarge it further. When Jebb died, a tower was added in...
politicians GladwynJebb and Andrew Phillips, who both claimed that the purpose of the pact was to discourage socialist legislation. Lord Gladwyn pointed...
diplomat who served at the UN in New York as political adviser to Sir GladwynJebb, especially as an expert on the Kashmir dispute. He was High Commissioner...
the Republic of China—and by a majority of the other 46 signatories. GladwynJebb served as Acting Secretary-General from 24 October 1945 to 2 February...
of Gloucester (President of the Imperial War Graves Commission), Sir GladwynJebb (the British Ambassador to France), General Jean Ganeval (representing...
from 00:35 on 25 June. Alexander Cadogan of the Foreign Office sent GladwynJebb, then a fairly junior official, to ask de Gaulle to tone down his next...