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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Gladwyn Jebb
| honorific-suffix = <br /><small>[[Order of St. Michael and St. George|GCMG]], [[Royal Victorian Order|GCVO]], [[Order of the Bath|CB]]</small>
| nationality=[[United Kingdom|British]]
| image = Sr. Gladwyn Jebb.jpg
| order=Acting [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]]
| term_start=24 October 1945
| term_end=2 February 1946
| predecessor=None
| successor=[[Trygve Lie]]
| birth_date={{birth date|1900|4|25|df=y}}
| birth_place=[[United Kingdom]]
| dead=
| death_date={{death date and age |1996|10|24|1900|4|25|df=y}}
| death_place=[[Suffolk]]
| spouse=Cynthia Jebb, Lady Gladwyn
| party=Liberal
| vicepresident=
| religion=
}}
'''Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn''', [[Order of St. Michael and St. George|GCMG]], [[Royal Victorian Order|GCVO]], [[Order of the Bath|CB]], known as '''Gladwyn Jebb''' (25 April 1900 – 24 October 1996), was a prominent [[United Kingdom|British]] civil servant, diplomat and politician as well as the first Acting [[United Nations Secretary General|Secretary-General]] of the [[United Nations]].

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==Acting UN Secretary-General==
After [[World War II]], he served as Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations in August 1945. He was appointed Acting United Nations Secretary-General from October 1945 to February 1946 until the appointment of the first Secretary-General [[Trygve Lie]].

==Ambassador==
Returning to London, Jebb was Deputy to the Foreign Secretary [[Ernest Bevin]] at the Conference of Foreign Ministers before serving as the Foreign Office's United Nations Adviser (1946-47). He represented the United Kingdom at the [[Brussels Treaty]] Permanent Commission with personal rank of [[Ambassador]]. He became the United Kingdom's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1950-1954 and to [[Paris]] from 1954-1960.

==Political career==
In 1960 Jebb was made a hereditary [[peerage|peer]] and as Baron Gladwyn became involved in politics as a member of the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]]. He was Deputy Leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords 1965-1988 and spokesman on foreign affairs and defence. An supporter of the European Union, he served as a [[Member of the European Parliament]] [[1973]]-[[1976]] where he was also the Vice-President of the Parliament's Political Committee. He tried to be elected to the [[European Parliament]] in 1979.

When asked why he had joined the Liberal party in the early 1960s, he replied that the Liberals were a party without a general and that he was a general without a party. Like many Liberals, he passionately believed that education was the key to social reform.

==Death==
He died in 1996, and is buried at St. Andrew's, [[Bramfield, Suffolk|Bramfield]] in the county of Suffolk.

==Lady Gladwyn==
Jebb's wife, Cynthia, [[Lady Gladwyn]], was a noted diarist of their times in [[Paris]] and a hostess of Liberal and London politics. She was the great-grand daughter of [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]].

==Honours==
* Commander of the [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]] 1942
* [[KCMG]] in 1949
* [[GCMG]], 1954
* [[GCVO]], 1957
* [[Companion of the Bath]], 1947
* [[Legion of Honour|Grand Croix de la Légion d'Honneur]], 1957

==Publications and papers==
Publications by Baron Gladwyn include:
* Is Tension Necessary?, 1959
* Peaceful Co-existence, 1962
* The European Idea, 1966
* Half-way to 1984, 1967
* De Gaulle's Europe, or, Why the General says No, 1969
* Europe after de Gaulle, 1970
* The Memoirs of Lord Gladwyn, 1972

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before=[[League of Nations|Secretary General of the <br /> League of Nations]] [[Seán Lester]] |
title=[[UN Secretary-General|Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations]] |
years=1945-1946 |
after=[[Trygve Lie]]}}

{{succession box | title=[[Baron Gladwyn]] | before=New Creation | after=[[Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 2nd Baron Gladwyn|Miles Gladwyn Jebb]] | years=1960 – 1996}}
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==Other websites==
* [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FGLAD Cambridge Archives Centre - Gladwyn Papers]

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