The Rt. Hon. Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan (1884-1968) was a British civil servant. An alumnus of Eton College, he was United Kingdom Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1946, representative to the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1944, member of the Privy Council in 1946, Britain's representative to the United Nations from 1946 to 1950, and Chairman of Board of Governors of the BBC from 1952 to 1957. 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a prestigious and internationally known independent school for boys, which is often described as the most famous school in the world. ... This is a list of Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs in the British Foreign Office since 1782. ... The Dumbarton Oaks Conference (or Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization) held beginning in August 1944 in a Washington, DC mansion (Dumbarton Oaks), was where the United Nations was formulated and negotiated. ... A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy. ... United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Board of Governors of the BBC is a group of twelve people who together regulate the BBC and represent the interests of the public, in particular those of viewers and listeners. ...