Gladwyn Jebb

The Lord Gladwyn
Jebb in 1951
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
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 bySir Oliver Harvey
Succeeded bySir Pierson Dixon
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations
In office
1950–1954
Preceded bySir Alexander Cadogan
Succeeded bySir Pierson Dixon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Acting
In office
24 October 1945 – 2 February 1946
Preceded bySeán Lester
(as Secretary-General of the League of Nations)
Succeeded byTrygve Lie
Personal details
Born
Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb

(1900-04-25)25 April 1900
Yorkshire, England
Died24 October 1996(1996-10-24) (aged 96)
Suffolk, England
Political partyLiberal (1960–1988)
Liberal Democrats (from 1988)
Other political
affiliations
Liberal and Democratic Group (1973–1976)
Spouse
(m. 1929; died 1990)
Children3
RelativesTatiana de Rosnay (granddaughter)
EducationSandroyd School
Eton College
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford

Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn GCMG 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.