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RARE “1st Baron Killearn" Miles Lampson Hand Written Letter Dated 1961:
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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baron Killearn" Miles Lampson Hand Written Letter Dated 1961.

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. 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.