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Sir Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, First Lord and Baron Gladwyn, known as Gladwyn Jebb (April 25, 1900 – October 24, 1996), was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician.

The son of Sydney Jebb, of Firbeck Hall, Yorkshire, Jebb was educated at Eton College, then Magdalen College, Oxford, gaining a first in History. In 1929 he married Cynthia Noble, with whom he had one son and two daughters, Miles, Vanessa married to the historian hugh Thomas, and Stella married to the scientist Joel de Rosnay.

], served in Tehran, where he became known to Harold Nicolson and to Vita Sackville-West and in ], as well as at the Foreign Office. He was a friend of Cyril Connelly and of Nancy Mitford. In1940, he was appointed chief exective of Special Operations Executive (SOE), the organization that spawned the French Resistance, and in June of that year, as France fell to the Nazi advance, advised General de Gaulle on his BBC addresses to France. In 1942 he was made head of the British postwar planning department, and attended the Tehran Confenernce as well as its successor, the Yalta Conference. After World War II, he served first as the first Acting United Nations Secretary-General 1945-1946, then in the Ernest BevinForeign Office, where he negotiated the North AtlanticTreaty.. He became the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the United Nations 1950-1954 and to Paris 1954-1960.

In 1960. Jebb was made a hereditary peer and as Baron Gladwyn and became involved in Liberal Party politics. He was Deputy Leader of the Party 1965-1988, spokesman on foreign affairs and defence. He served as a Member of the European Parliament 1973-1976 and contested the Suffolk seat in the European Parliament in 1979. He died in 1996, and is buried at St. Andrew's, Bramfield in the county of Suffolk. He became a good cook and for a long time was chairman of the British government's wine committee. A good shot, never ceased to be interested by rural pursuits; and as a patrician rarely ceased to believe that education was the pillar of social reform.

Jebb's wife, Cynthia, was a diarist of their times in Paris and in Liberal politics.

• 1900 births
• 1996 deaths
• Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
• UK Liberal Party politicians
• UN Secretaries-General
• British diplomats
• Members of the European Parliament from the United Kingdom