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)

References

  • 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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