Robert Smallbones

Robert Smallbones
Born
Robert Townsend Smallbones

(1884-03-19)19 March 1884
Vienna, Austria
Died29 May 1976(1976-05-29) (aged 92)
São Paulo, Brazil
Alma materTrinity College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Diplomat and humanitarian
SpouseInga Gjertson
Children2
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Awards

Robert Townsend Smallbones CMG MBE (19 March 1884 – 29 May 1976) was a British diplomat and humanitarian who arranged the issue of visas to persecuted Jewish people in Germany before the Second World War and visited Nazi concentration camps to demand the release of prisoners. He was posthumously recognised as a British Hero of the Holocaust in 2013.