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.
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Early life and career
The son of Sydney Gladwyn Jebb JP, of Firbeck Hall, Yorkshire (a grandson of Sir Joshua Jebb and a maternal nephew of the 5th and 6th Viscounts Melville), and Rose Eleanor Chichester (daughter of Maj.-Gen. Hugh Chichester), Jebb attended Sandroyd School and Eton College before graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, with a first class honours degree in history.