Baron Gladwyn Explained

Baron Gladwyn, of Bramfield in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. 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^[1] 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

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

Notes and References

1. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/216484/gladwyn Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2017