Lady Spears (centre) with Sir Edward Spears (left) in December 1942 in Lebanon on the steps of their residence – that of the First British Minister to the Levant. To the right of Sir Edward stands Henry Hopkinson, private secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan; Richard Casey, Minister Resident in the Middle East, is to the right of Lady Spears, with Mrs Ethel Casey to her left.
Henry Lennox D'Aubigne Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton, KCVOPC (3 January 1902 – 6 January 1996), was a British diplomat and Conservative politician.
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