Baron Gladwyn
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Baron Gladwyn, of Bramfield
Bramfield, Suffolk
Bramfield is a small village in the county of Suffolk, England. The village is found off the A12 road, one of the main arterial routes through the county....

 in the County of Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1960 for the prominent civil servant and diplomat Sir Gladwyn Jebb
Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, GCMG, GCVO, CB, known as Gladwyn Jebb , was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician as well as the Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations....

. He was Acting Secretary General of the United Nations from 1945 to 1946 and British Ambassador to France between 1954 and 1960. the title is held by his son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1996.

Barons Gladwyn (1960)

  • (Hubert Miles) Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
    Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
    Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, GCMG, GCVO, CB, known as Gladwyn Jebb , was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician as well as the Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations....

    (1900–1996)
  • Miles Alvery Gladwyn Jebb, 2nd Baron Gladwyn (b. 1930)


There is no heir to the barony.
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