Gladwyn Jebb
| Gladwyn Jebb link (Spook, diplomat) | |
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| Born | Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb 25 April 1900 United Kingdom |
| Died | 24 October 1996 Suffolk, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Sandroyd School, Eton College, Magdalen College (Oxford) |
| Religion | Anglican |
| Children | 3 |
| Spouses | Cynthia Jebb, Lady Gladwyn |
| Party | Liberal Party (UK) |
Holder of spooky jobs including UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Chief of the SOE during WW2. | |
Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician who was acting secretary-general of the United Nations between 1945 and 1946.
Background
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 (daughter of Maj.-Gen. Hugh Chichester).
Education
Jebb attended Sandroyd School and Eton College before graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, with a first class honours degree in history.[1]
Marriage
In 1929, Jebb married Cynthia Noble, daughter of Sir Saxton Noble, 3rd Baronet. She was a granddaughter of the gun-developer Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet, and a great-granddaughter of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The couple had three children, one son, Miles, and two daughters: Vanessa, who married the historian Hugh Thomas, and Stella, who married the scientist Joel de Rosnay and was the mother of the French writer Tatiana de Rosnay.[1]
Early career
Jebb entered the British Diplomatic Service in 1924 and was active in Tehran, where he got to know Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West. He later was active in Rome and at the Foreign Office in Westminster, where he was Private Secretary to the Head of the Diplomatic Service.[1]
Second World War spook
For part of the War of 1939 to 1945, Jebb left the Foreign Office to become Chief Executive Officer for the Special Operations Executive,[2] where he was from 1940 to 1942. On his return to the Foreign Office, Jebb asked to be posted to Madagascar, but this application was rejected, and he was sent to the Treasury for economic training.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sean Greenwood, Titan at the Foreign Office: Gladwyn Jebb and the shaping of the modern world (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008), pp. 5–18.
- ↑ Foot, M. R. D. (2000). SOE in France. Frank Cass. p. 22. ISBN 0-7146-5528-7.
- ↑ 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.
