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DATE: Saturday, October 26, 1996 TAG: 9610280072
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: LONDON
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Gladwyn Jebb, the British diplomat who played a key role in drafting the United Nations founding charter, has died. He was 96.
He died Thursday at home at Halesworth, 90 miles northeast of London, his family said Friday.
Born Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, he was educated at Oxford University and entered the British diplomatic service in 1924. Throughout his diplomatic career, he was known as Gladwyn Jebb, but in 1960 he was given a hereditary peerage in the House of Lords and chose the name Lord Gladwyn.
In 1943, he prepared early drafts for the proposed U.N. charter and attended conferences in Quebec City, Cairo, Tehran, Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, San Francisco and Potsdam at which the drafts were hammered into their final forms.
Gladwyn is survived by two daughters and a son.
- Associated Press
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