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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baron Killearn" Miles Lampson Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Miles Wedderburn Lampson, 1st 1880 – 18 September 1964) was a British diplomat. Miles Lampson was the
son of Norman Lampson, and grandson of Sir Curtis Lampson, 1st
Baronet. His mother was Helen, daughter of Peter Blackburn, MP
for Stirlingshire.
He was educated at Eton. Lampson entered the
Foreign Office in 1903. He served as Secretary to Garter Mission, Japan, in
1906, as 2nd Secretary at Tokyo, Japan, between 1908 and 1910, as 2nd Secretary at Sofia, Bulgaria in 1911, as 1st Secretary at Peking in 1916, as Acting British High Commissioner
in Siberia in 1920 and as British Minister to China between
1926 and 1933. In 1934 he was appointed High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan. As a result of the
Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in December 1936 Britain loosened its grip on Egypt and
the post title was changed to Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for the Sudan in
1936. Lampson continued in this office until 1946. As ambassador to Egypt he
forced King Farouk I to
change the cabinet to a Wafdist one through surrounding the king's palace with
tanks. He was then Special Commissioner in Southeast Asia between 1946 and
1948. He was admitted to the Privy
Council in 1941 and raised to the peerage as Baron Killearn, of Killearn in the County of Stirling, on 17 May 1943.[1] He was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays
with Neck Ribbon of Japan[2] and the Order of the Sacred
Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon of Japan.