| 词条 | Reginald Leeper |
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|name = Sir Reginald Leeper |image = |alt = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1888|03|25|df=yes}} |birth_place = |death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|2|2|1888|03|25|df=yes}} |death_place = |nationality = |other_names = |known_for = |occupation = civil servant and diplomat }}Sir Reginald "Rex" Wildig Allen Leeper {{postnominals|country=GBR|GBE|KCMG}} (25 March 1888 – 2 February 1968) was a British civil servant and diplomat. He was the founder of the British Council.[1] Born in Sydney, Australia, Leeper was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne's Trinity College, and New College, Oxford. Leeper was the son of Dr Alexander Leeper, the first Warden of Trinity College, the University of Melbourne, and his wife Adeline (née Allen).[2] His half-sister Valentine Leeper (1900–2001), maintained a lifelong correspondence with him.[3] Leeper began his government career at the Intelligence Bureau of the Department of Information in the First World War and served briefly at the Political Intelligence Department. He became head of Britain's Political Intelligence Department when it reformed in 1939. Leeper was the British ambassador to the Greek government 1943–46 (in exile in Cairo until October 1944). He played a critical role in Greek political developments of 1944, especially in support of the Greek monarchy in the person of King George II of Greece. After Greece's liberation, Leeper continued to be one of the major power brokers during his tenure, which included the early stages of the Greek Civil War. Leeper was then British ambassador to Argentina from 1946–48. In February 1948 he and a UK trade mission led by Clive Baillieu secured a new trade agreement with Argentina. It was signed on 7 February in the Port of Buenos Aires at a reception aboard the Royal Mail Lines flagship {{RMS|Andes|1939|6}}.{{sfn|Nicol|2001|p=174}} His brother, Alexander Wigram Allen Leeper, was also a distinguished British diplomat. References1. ^{{cite web |title=Sir Reginald Leeper |url= http://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/history/influential-people |publisher=The British Council}} 2. ^{{harvnb|Poynter|1997|p=}}{{page needed |date=May 2017}} 3. ^{{harvnb|Poynter|2008|p=}}{{page needed |date=May 2017}}
10 : 1888 births|1968 deaths|Alumni of New College, Oxford|Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Argentina|Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Greece|Foreign Office personnel of World War II|Greece in World War II|Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire|People educated at Trinity College (University of Melbourne) |
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