词条 | Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn |
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|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |name = The Lord Killearn |honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG|CB|MVO|PC}} |image = Miles Lampson.JPG |office = His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to Egypt and the Sudan |term_start = 1936 |term_end = 1946 |predecessor = Himself (as UK High Commissioner) |successor = Sir Ronald Campbell |office2 = His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner to Egypt and the Sudan |term_start2 = 1934 |term_end2 = 1936 |predecessor2 = Sir Percy Loraine |successor2 = Himself (as UK Ambassador) |birth_name = Miles Wedderburn Lampson |birth_date = 24 August 1880 |death_date = 18 September 1964 (aged 84) }} Miles Wedderburn Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCMG|CB|MVO|PC}} (24 August 1880 – 18 September 1964) was a British diplomat. Background and educationMiles Lampson was the son of Norman Lampson, and grandson of Sir Curtis Lampson, 1st Baronet. His mother was Helen, daughter of Peter Blackburn, MP for Stirlingshire. He was educated at Eton. Diplomatic careerLampson entered the Foreign Office in 1903. He served as Secretary to Garter Mission, Japan, in 1906, as 2nd Secretary at Tokyo, Japan, between 1908 and 1910, as 2nd Secretary at Sofia, Bulgaria in 1911, as 1st Secretary at Peking in 1916, as Acting British High Commissioner in Siberia in 1920 and as British Minister to China between 1926 and 1933. In 1934 he was appointed High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan. As a result of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in December 1936 Britain loosened its grip on Egypt the post title was changed to Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for the Sudan in 1936. Lampson continued in this office until 1946. As ambassador to Egypt he forced King Farouk I to change the cabinet to a wafdist one through surrounding the king's palace with tanks. He was then Special Commissioner in Southeast Asia between 1946 and 1948. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1941 and raised to the peerage as Baron Killearn, of Killearn in the County of Stirling, on 17 May 1943.[1] He was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon of Japan[2] and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon of Japan.[2] FamilyLord Killearn married firstly Rachel, daughter of William Wilton Phipps, in 1912. They had one son and two daughters:
After Rachel's death in 1930 he married secondly Jacqueline Aldine Leslie Castellani (1910-2015),[3] daughter of Aldo Castellani, {{Abbr|KCMG|Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George}} (Hon.), in 1934. They had one son and two daughters:
Lampson was a close personal friend of Sir Edward Peel. SuccessionLord Killearn died in September 1964, aged 84, and was succeeded in the barony by his son by his first marriage, Graham. As Graham died without male heirs, the title subsequently passed to Lord Killearn's son from his second marriage, Victor. The 3rd Lord Killearn took legal action in 2011 to prevent his mother selling off the family home, Haremere Hall.[4] See also{{Commons category|Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn}}
References1. ^{{London Gazette |issue=36020 |date=18 May 1943 |page=2219}} 2. ^1 "Pax Britannica (3rd Class)", Time, 16 May 1932. 3. ^https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11926858/The-Dowager-Lady-Killearn-obituary.html 4. ^Daily Telegraph 18 Oct 2011 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8834008/Baroness-loses-legal-fight-with-son-to-sell-stately-home.html
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