Baron Gladwyn, of Bramfield in the County of

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, was a title in the

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. It was created in 1960 for the prominent civil servant and diplomat

Gladwyn Jebb Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn (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. Early ...

. He was Acting

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from 1945 to 1946 and

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between 1954 and 1960. The title became extinct in 2017Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2017
/ref> on the death of his son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1996.

Barons Gladwyn (1960)

* Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn (1900–1996) * Miles Alvery Gladwyn Jebb, 2nd Baron Gladwyn (1930–2017)

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gladwyn Extinct baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Noble titles created in 1960