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George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, KBE, DSO, MC, PC, FRS, LLD, FKC, (April 3, 1918–22 February 2007) was a British politician and statesman, diplomatist and businessman. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority... DSO medal The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other Commonwealth countries, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat. ... The Military Cross (MC) is the third level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Army and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... The Fellowship of the Royal Society was founded in 1660. ... Doctor of Laws (Latin: Legum Doctor, LL.D) is a doctorate-level academic degree in law. ... FKC may mean: Fellow of Kings College in London, England. ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... Year 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

Jellicoe was the only son but sixth and youngest child of First World War naval commander, the hero of Jutland, Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe by his wife Florence Gwendoline (died 1964), second daughter of Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Bart., of Gartmore, Perthshire. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Combatants Royal Navy (Grand Fleet) Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet) Commanders Sir John Jellicoe, Sir David Beatty Reinhard Scheer, Franz von Hipper Strength 28 battleships, 9 battlecruisers, 8 heavy cruisers, 26 light cruisers, 78 destroyers 16 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 6 pre-dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers, 61 torpedo-boats Casualties 6... Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (December 5, 1859- November 20, 1935) was a British Royal Navy admiral. ... There have been three baronetcies created for people with the surname Cayzer, each in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom and each for members of the same family . ... A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt), is the holder of an hereditary title awarded by the British Crown, known as a baronetcy. ... Perthshire (Siorrachd Pheairt in Gaelic) was a county in central Scotland, which extended from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south. ...

George Jellicoe

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Youth

Jellicoe was born at Hatfield. He weighed 14LBs. He was christened by Dr. Cosmo Lang, the 115th Archbishop of Canterbury, while King George V and Lady Patricia Ramsay (at the time she was known as HRH Princess Patricia of Connaught) stood sponsor as godparents. Most of his childhood was spent at St. Lawrence Hall, near Ventnor on the Isle of Wight; at a Broadstairs (Kent) prep school; in London; and in New Zealand, where his father was Governor-General between 1921 and 1924. He was educated at Winchester College, where he was styled and known of as Viscount Brocas, and at Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1936. BA, Modern History tripos 1939, but awarded 1966). He was chairman of the Pitt Club. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1594x1939, 2065 KB) snapshot in possesion of the sitter. ... Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth (31 October 1864 – 5 December 1945) was Archbishop of York (1908–1928) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1928–1942). ... Arms of the see of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior clergyman of the established Church of England and symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 - 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, as a result of his creating it from the British branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... Princess Patricia of Connaught (Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth; later Lady Patricia Ramsay; 17 March 1886 – 12 January 1974) was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. ... Ventnor is a seaside resort established in the Victorian era on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England. ... The Isle of Wight is an English island and county, off the southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire. ... Broadstairs is a town in Kent, England, with a population of about 22. ... Flag of the Governor-General of New Zealand. ... Winchester College is a well-known boys independent school, and an example of a British public school, in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, England. ... John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names King’s Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... The Pitt Club, founded in 1835, is an exclusive invitation-only club for male students at the University of Cambridge. ...

Second World War

Jellicoe's raid on Crete blew up sixteen Ju. 88s

In October 1939 Jellicoe was part of RMC Sandhurst's first war intake. He joined the Coldstream Guards (23 March 1940), sailed (31 January 1941) to the Middle East with Colonel Bob Lacock's Layforce, (with Evelyn Waugh, Randolph Churchill, Philip Dunne etal.) as part of No 8 (Guards) Commando (with Carol Mather, David Stirling etal.). Served with L Detachment (from April 1942) the nucleus of the SAS, and then the Special Boat Regiment Middle East as its commanding officer (Lieutenant-Colonel/acting Brigadier). Arriving by bicycle, Jellicoe was among the first Allied soldiers to enter German-occupied Athens, beating the communist-controlled guerrillas ELAS (Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos) to create a presence there. He was mentioned in despatches thrice, and wounded (bullet in shoulder) once whilst with the 3rd Battalion 22 Guards Brigade in the Western Desert in January 1941. He was awarded the MC in 1944, and the DSO in November 1942 for leading a raid that blew up more than 20 bombers on the German airport at Heraklion, Crete that June: Junkers Ju 88 bomber. ... Junkers Ju 88 bomber. ... The Junkers Ju 88 was a WW2 Luftwaffe twin-engine multi-role aircraft. ... New College, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst New Colours are presented to RMAS, June 2005. ... The Coldstream Guards is a regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division or Household Division. ... January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Layforce consisted of Nos. ... Layforce consisted of Nos. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill (May 28, 1911-June 6, 1968) was the son of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine. ... Captain Philip Russell Rendel Dunne, MC (28 February 1904 – 13 April 1965) was an English soldier and politician. ... Sir David Carol Macdonnell Mather (January 3, 1919 - July 3, 2006) was a British Conservative Party politician. ... Colonel Sir David Stirling, OBE, DSO (November 15, 1915 - November 4, 1990) was a Scottish laird, keen mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service. ... The Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) is the principal special forces unit of the British Army. ... The Special Boat Service (SBS) is the British Royal Navys and Royal Marines’ Special Forces unit. ... Nickname: City of Athena or Cradle of Democracy Location of the city of Athens (red dot) within the Prefecture of Athens and Periphery of Attica Coordinates: Country Greece Peripheries Attica Prefecture Athens Founded circa 2000 BC Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis Area    - City 38. ... Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) (Greek Εθνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στράτος (ΕΛΑΣ) National Popular Liberation Army) was the military arm of the Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metopo (ELAM) during the period of the Greek Resistance and the Greek Civil War. ... Mentioned in Dispatches (MID) is a military award for gallantry or otherwise commendable service. ... Heraklion or Iraklion (Greek: Ηράκλειο Italian: Candia), is the largest city and the capital of Crete. ...

'His cool and resolute leadership, skill and courage throughout this very hazardous operation were mainly responsible for the high measure of success achieved. He ... placed charges on the enemy aircraft and brought off the survivors after the four Free French members of the party had been betrayed and killed or captured', (from the London Gazette of 5 November 1942, quoted from L. Windmill, p.49). Free French Forces under review during the Battle of Normandy. ... The London Gazette , front page from Monday 3 - 10 September 1666, reporting on the Great Fire of London. ...

HM Foreign Service 1947-1958

Soon after the war Jellicoe joined Her Majesty's Foreign Service. He served in London (German political department, Third Secretary); Washington (Third Secretary, when Donald Maclean of the Cambridge five was Head of Chancery); Brussels (Head of Chancery); London (no. 2 in Northern department in charge of the Soviet Desk); and Baghdad (First Secretary and Deputy Secretary General of The Baghdad Pact Organisation). The Suez Crisis (from July 1956) wrecked everything the Pact was trying to achieve; Jellicoe was appalled by British policy and came close to resigning (L. Windmill p. 136). The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, seen from St. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: Federal District District of Columbia  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2: Jack Evans... Donald Duart Maclean Donald Duart Maclean (25 May 1913 – 6 March 1983) was a career British diplomat turned Soviet intelligence agent. ... The Cambridge Five (also sometimes known as the Cambridge Four) was a ring of British spies who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and into the early 1950s. ... Nickname: The Capital Of Europe, Comic City City of a 100 Museums[] Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Coordinates: Country Belgium Region Brussels-Capital Region Founded 979 Founded (Region) June 18, 1989  - Mayor (Municipality) Freddy Thielemans Area    - City 162 (Region) km²  (62. ... Combatants Israel United Kingdom France Egypt Commanders Moshe Dayan Charles Keightley Pierre Barjot Gamal Abdel Nasser Strength 175,000 Israeli 45,000 British 34,000 French 70,000 Casualties 197 Israeli KIA 56 British KIA 91 British WIA 10 French KIA 43 French WIA 650 KIA 2,900 WIA 2...

Cayzer shipping, of passing interest

Jellicoe eventually left the Foreign Office in March 1958, after marital difficulties (February 1958, Permanent Secretary Sir Derek Hoyar-Millar wrote; 'You have a choice of ceasing your relationship with this lady [Philippa Dunne] or changing your job') had caused an empasse, and became a director of the Cayzer dynasty's Clan Line Steamers (cargo ships), and Union Castle Steamship Co. (passengers).
However, his mother's family's businesses were ultimately less conducive than the Palace of Westminster, where, back from Iraq, he Took the Oath in the Lords on 3 December 1957, in the Third Session of the UK's 41st parliament. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1336x418, 50 KB)Profile of the Union-Castle liner MV Bloemfontein Castle in 1959 Created by Dave Aldworth in 1980 and released to the public domain. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1336x418, 50 KB)Profile of the Union-Castle liner MV Bloemfontein Castle in 1959 Created by Dave Aldworth in 1980 and released to the public domain. ... The Permanent Secretary, in most departments officially titled the Permanent Under-Secretary of State (although the full title is rarely used), is the most senior civil servant of a British Government ministry, charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis. ... The Union-Castle Line was a prominent shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and freighters between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977. ... The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London, England is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) meet to conduct their business. ... An oath (from Old Saxon eoth) is either a promise or a statement of fact calling upon something or someone that the oath maker considers sacred, usually a god, as a witness to the binding nature of the promise or the truth of the statement of fact. ...

House of Lords & 1960s

Having first sat in parliament on 25 July 1939, Jellicoe waited until 28 July 1958 to make his maiden speech in the House of Lords during a debate The International Situation : The Middle East. He spoke from the Cross-Benches about the Baghdad Pact and Iraq: July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... A cross-bencher is a member of the British House of Lords who is not aligned to any particular party. ...

'... Having lately lived for a year or so in Baghdad I confess that I have not been untouched by the charm of that ugly yet fascinating city, and, if I may say so, of the diverse peoples of Iraq... Like all your Lordships, I felt, and feel, a deep sense of shock, indeed revulsion, at the brutal butchery of the young King and his family, and of that great, and greatly human, statesman, Nuri Pasha. I have also been shocked by the tendency which one sees current at the moment to write off the Nuri regime as decadent, feudal and corrupt. That picture, in my view, is a travesty of the truth....As part of the admirable development programme which the Nuri regime was carrying through there was a large schools programme. These schools were built for the purpose your Lordships might expect-to educate Iraqis in. But the Iraqis did not believe that ; they thought-it was a very widespread belief which one could not eradicate-that these schools were camoflaged barracks intended for the British Army when they reoccupied Iraq. These are the sorts of ingrowing toenails in the Iraqi consciousness which I feel we must try to eradicate, to draw out... ' Baghdad (Arabic ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... Emir Faisals party at Versailles, during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. ...

By October 1958 he had joined the Conservatives, in the Lords a natural home for such a distinctly pink Whig, who gave him the honour of moving 'an humble Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech': The Whigs (with the Tories) are often described as one of two political parties in England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to the mid 19th centuries. ...

' My Lords, I am acutely, indeed somewhat painfully, conscious of the great honour which the noble Earl [ Lord Home , aka Alec Douglas-Home] the Leader of the House has done me in inviting me to move the humble Address to Her Majesty. The last time that I addressed your Lordships' House was from the platonic sanctity of the Cross-Benches. I then had the aesthetic pleasure of seeing your Lordships in profile : I now have the equal pleasure of seeing some of your Lordships full face. I do not know why I find myself in this particular hot spot this afternoon. I can only surmise that the noble Earl, fishing for a good large Tory trout, cast over the Cross-Benches for an ex-Ambassador and hooked an ex-First Secretary by mistake '. Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home1, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (July 2, 1903 – October 9, 1995), 14th Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative (actually SUP) politician, and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a year from October 1963 to October 1964. ...

On 7 May 1959 he asked a prescient starred question on the Planning of Motorways: May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

' ... Just as the Roman roads are with us to-day, so these great new roads may be with our successors 1,000 years hence. With this in mind, can my noble friend assure us, first, that the advice of the Advisory Committee [on the Landscape Treatment of Trunk Roads] to which he referred will in all cases in future be sought at a very early stage in the planning of these new roads ; and, secondly, that permanent professional advice will be enlisted from the outset at the planning, the reconnaissance stage, in order to ensure that these great new roads blend as harmoniously as possible with the land-scape through which they pass? '

On 20 July 1959 he initiated a debate on Western Aid for Uncommitted Countries, and by January 1961 he was a Lord-in-Waiting to H.M. the Queen, a Government Whip, in Macmillan's administration. He was Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government June 1961–July 1962; Minister of State, Home Office July 1962–October 1963; First Lord of the Admiralty October 1963–April 1964; Minister of Defence for the Royal Navy April - October 1964; delegate to the Council of Europe and the Western European Union (WEU) 1965-1967; president of the National Federation of Housing Societies 1965-1970; a governor of the Centre for Environmental Studies 1967-1970; chairman of the British Advisory Committee on Oil Pollution at Sea 1968; chairman of the third International Conference on oil pollution of the sea 1968; an hon. vice-president of PEST (Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism); and deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lords 1967–1970. From April 1967 Lords Jellicoe and Carrington represented the Conservatives in the Lords on the Inter-Party conference group on Lords' reform, which came up with the unsuccessful Parliament (No.2) Bill (1968-1969). Leading the debate for the (Conservative) Opposition in November 1968 Jellicoe said: July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In politics, a whip is a member of a political party in a legislature whose task is to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ... Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986), was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ... The First Lord of the Admiralty was a British government position in charge of the Admiralty. ... The Palais de lEurope in Strasbourg Council of Europe Flag: used by the Council of Europe The Council of Europe (French: , German: ) is an international organization of 46 member states in the European region (with Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Georgia and Cyprus also extending into Southwest Asia and Russia into... The Tory Reform Group (TRG) is a group within the United Kingdoms Conservative Party, that uphold the One Nation Tory vision, which they describe[citation needed] as being the promotion of: Social justice Political progress Prosperity for all // Europe The TRG is commonly seen as being pro-European. ... The Right Honourable Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC,DL (born 6 June 1919) is a British Conservative politician and served as British Foreign Secretary between 1979 and 1982 and as Secretary-General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. ...

' We hold that a grave constitutional change of this kind should not be brought into effect in the dying years of a discredited Government...a viable Upper House has an essential part to play in our parliamentary structure. We now have a quite considerable constitutional prize in our grasp, the opportunity to build a really viable Upper House on the basis of a broad consensus of support from all Parties... ' (19 November 1968, Hansard via L. Windmill). November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ...

Cabinet minister & resignation

Jellicoe: energy supremo

In Ted Heath's administration he was Minister in charge for the Civil Service Department (CSD), Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords from 20 June 1970 until 24 May 1973 when he admitted, as he put it, "some casual affairs" with call girls (from Mayfair Escorts) and resigned (thus ending his third career in government service) in the wake of an unfortunate accidental confusion with Lord Lambton's different issue. Earlier having re-established relations with the miners' union leaders in February 1972 Heath appointed Jellicoe "energy supremo" to restore power supplies around the time of the Three-Day Week and had him set up and chair a Civil Contingencies Unit, which was, when an internal crisis arose, to operate through "COBRA" (the Cabinet Office Briefing Room). In June 1972 Jellicoe was sent on Concorde's first sales expedition. As the Australian The Sun of 22 June 1972 put it: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (768x1276, 92 KB) Description: en: de: Glühlampe der Marke Neolux mit klarem Glaskolben. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (768x1276, 92 KB) Description: en: de: Glühlampe der Marke Neolux mit klarem Glaskolben. ... Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), soldier and politician, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ... Members of the Cabinet are in bold face. ... The Lord Privy Seal or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal is one of the traditional sinecure offices in the British Cabinet. ... Leader of the House of Lords is a function in the British government that is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, most often Lord President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal or Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. ... May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... A call girl is a prostitute who is not visible to the general public, like a street walker, and who does not usually belong to an institution like a brothel. ... Anthony Claud Frederick Lambton (born 10 July 1922) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Berwick_upon_Tweed from 1951 until 1973, and a cousin of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the former Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, and. ... The Three-Day Week was one of several measures introduced in the United Kingdom by the Conservative Government 1970-1974 to conserve electricity, the production of which was severely limited due to industrial action by coal miners. ... British Airways Concorde G-BOAB. Concorde G-BOAD on a barge beneath Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York City in November 2003, bound for the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

' There has probably never been a sales team quite like the aristocratic British contingent that is trying to sell the Anglo-French supersonic Concorde to Qantas... The Earl is an astute salesman who has obviously done his homework ... He has the stamina to address a couple of press conferences each day as well as make daily speeches... cultivate politicians, DCA personnel and Qantas bosses. At fifty-four, the Earl looks a rugged character. He has a strong broad chin and speaks with a directness that appeals to Australians...he has become known as Aeroplane Jellicoe ' (quoted from L. Windmill, p.183).

Jellicoe himself steered the European Communities Act (1972) through the Lords, allowing no amendments. The Industrial Relations Act was another legislative highlight. The European Communities Act (1972 c. ...

The last Concorde

After the resignation (over his marginal involvement in a minor indiscretion) Richard Crossman, writing in The Times, 30 May 1973 (page 18), described Jellicoe as: Image File history File links Concorde_on_Bristol. ... Image File history File links Concorde_on_Bristol. ... British Airways Concorde G-BOAB. Concorde G-BOAD on a barge beneath Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York City in November 2003, bound for the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. ... Richard Howard Stafford Crossman (15 December 1907 to April 1974) was a British politician and writer. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

' ... among the bravest, ablest, most decent members of the Heath Government ... But need the Prime Minister have got rid of Lord Jellicoe in such peremptory style? Could he not have refused his resignation until all the facts were available? '

On return from the Whitsun recess fulsome tributes were paid in the Lords to their departed leader: The (Labour Party) Opposition leader and Jellicoe's predecessor as Lord Privy Seal, Lord Shackleton said: Right Hon. ...

' Lord Jellicoe... has been as good a leader of this House as we have known [cheers].. I don't think we can let him go -though happily this is not an epitaph- without expressing our very deep sorrow to the House and to the country [cheers]...with immense thoroughness, patience and personal sensitivity Lord Jellicoe fulfilled his role as Leader of your Lordships House [cheers]... we [ Lords Byers and Shackleton ] found him an admirable open-minded and wise colleague; my Lords, I believe that we and the country have suffered a grievous loss... (Hansard, 5 June 1973, and The Times 6 June 1973 for the cheers) June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Lord Byers for the Liberal Party said:

' we regret bitterly his resignation... He was a reforming innovator and the House owes a great deal more than it probably knows to the interest he took in this House and to his initiatives ' (Hansard, 5 June 1973) June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

From the Cross-Benches Lord Strang added: William Strang, 1st Baron Strang GCMG, KCB (2 January 1893—27 May 1978) was a British diplomat who served as a leading adviser to the British government from the 1930s to the 1950s and as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1949 to 1953. ...

' To some of us it had been a comfort to have had Lord Jellicoe as Leader. I doubt whether he realises how much we shall miss him. We have been deeply saddened by what has happened. The outstanding record of his achievements will not be dimmed; our warm regard for him will remain. ' (Hansard, 5 June 1973) June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

William Kendall, general secretary of the Civil and Public Services Association said:

' In our union we respected him as a tough, capable and fair negotiator ' (quoted from the The Times, May 25, 1973, page 2). May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Business and post government public career

Tate & Lyle revived and retrenched by Jellicoe

Loss of government office soon seemed somewhat serendipitous. With no estates to distract him Jellicoe was free to re-join S.G. Warburg & Co. (1 October 1973), and he became a non-executive director of the sugar company Tate & Lyle 1973–1993. Thanks in the main to Sir Saxon Tate they made him their first non-family chairman 1978–1983. He was chairman of Tunnel Refineries to 1978, and later was chairman of Booker Tate, 1988-1991. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (570x660, 133 KB) Lyles Golden Syrup in a resealable tin. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (570x660, 133 KB) Lyles Golden Syrup in a resealable tin. ... S.G. Warburg & Co was a London-based investment bank founded in 1946 by Siegmund George Warburg, a member of the Warburg family, a prominent German-Jewish banking family; and Henry Grunfeld, a former industrialist in the German steel industry. ... A tin of Lyles Golden Syrup Tate & Lyle PLC is a UK based multinational food manufacturer and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE. It is a major producer of refined sugar, starches, animal feed and other food ingredients with global operations. ...

Other non-governmental jobs include: chairman of engineering plant company the Davy Corporation 1985–1990; director Sotheby's Holdings 1973–1993; Morgan Crucible 1974–88; Smiths Industries Ltd 1973–1986; S.G. Warburg & Co 1964–1970, 1973–1988. He was president of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1979-1982. From 1983 to 1986 he was chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board (BOTB), that was followed by chairmanship (1986-1990) and then the presidency (1990-1995) of the East European Trade Council (EETC). He was chairman of the Greek Fund Ltd 1988-1994 and of European Capital Ltd 1991-1995. PR shot of Sothebys New York, from auditions for The Apprentice 2  It should be possible to replace this fair use image with a freely licensed one. ... Smiths Group is a British engineering company involved in wide-ranging speciality engineering. ...

_{Jellicoe at opening of The Second World War Experience Centre in Leeds, 2002}

Lord Jellicoe was chairman of the council of King's College, London (KCL) 1974-1983; chairman of the Medical Research Council (MRC) 1982-1990; president of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) 1993–1997; president of the Anglo-Hellenic League 1978–1986; president of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust 1987-1994; president of the Crete Veterans Association 1991-2001; president of the British Heart Foundation (BHF) 1992-1995; chancellor of Southampton University 1984–1995, and has been closely associated with research and higher education. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990. In 1995 he helped found Hakluyt & Company, a secret commercial intelligence company based at 34 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, for which he was a director 1996-2000. He was president of the SAS Regimental Association 1996–2000. Lord Jelicoe was a vice-president of the Byron Society, a member of the World Innovation Fund (WIF) and an associate member of INEED. In 2002 he became a patron of The Second World War Experience Centre in Leeds. Image File history File links Jellicoe2002. ... Image File history File links Jellicoe2002. ... Kings College London (often abbreviated to KCL) in London is one of the largest colleges in the federal University of London, with 19,500 registered students. ... Current MRC logo The Medical Research Council (MRC) is a UK organisation dedicated to promot[ing] the balanced development of medical and related biological research in the UK. Organisation The MRC is one of seven Research Councils and is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Office of Science and... The Royal Geographical Society is a learned society, founded in 1830 with the name Geographical Society of London for the advancement of geographical science, under the patronage of King William IV. It absorbed the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa (founded by Joseph Banks in... The canal at Bathampton, near Bath The Kennet and Avon Canal is a canal in southern England. ... For the famous World War II battle, see: Battle of Crete For other uses, see Crete (disambiguation). ... A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... The University of Southampton is a British university, with a reputation for quality research. ... The Fellowship of the Royal Society was founded in 1660. ... Hakluyt & Company is a British corporate investigation firm. ... Brook Street is one of the principal streets on the Grosvenor Estate in the exclusive central London district of Mayfair. ... Lord Byron redirects here. ...

Later state contributions

...I also believe that Ukrainian independence and prosperity are a measure of our determination to help to create a lasting and peaceful new intra-European matrix of relationships and that as such they merit our very particular attention.

Back in the Lords and affairs of state; he is a former chairman of the Select Committee on Committees and President of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee 1980-1983. In 1983 he was author of the Jellicoe Report which reviewed the Operation of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1976. The Times saw this appointment as the end of nine years penance in the political wilderness. Despite being a regular attender until early 2006 Jellicoe's last full speech in the Lords was made as part of the Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech (the Queen's Speech debate) on 28 October 1996, his subject was the Ukraine. Download high resolution version (614x781, 125 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (614x781, 125 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 64 days remaining. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

When the House of Lords Act 1999 removed his hereditary automatic entitlement to attend and sit in the House of Lords, he was created a life peer as Baron Jellicoe of Southampton, of Southampton in the County of Hampshire, so that he could continue to be summoned. The House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings for Die Martis 23° Novembris 1999 records: The House of Lords Act 1999, an Act of Parliament passed by the British Parliament, was a major constitutional enactment as it reformed greatly one of the chambers of Parliament, the House of Lords (see Lords Reform). ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... Southampton is a city, unitary authority and major port situated on the south coast of England. ...

1. Earl Jellicoe (Lord Jellicoe of Southampton)—The Rt Hon. George Patrick John Rushworth Earl Jellicoe, having been created Baron Jellicoe of Southampton, of Southampton in the County of Hampshire, for life by Letters Patent dated 6 o’clock in the forenoon of 17th November 1999, took and subscribed the oath pursuant to statute. Image File history File links Small_Lords_logo. ...

Earl Jellicoe remained an active member of the House of Lords for the rest of his life. He died on February 22, 2007, six weeks short of his 89th birthday. February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

At his death, Earl Jellicoe was the longest serving member of the House of Lords, and arguably the longest serving parliamentarian in the world, having succeeded his father in 1935 and come of age and sat first in parliament on 25 July 1939. Because he waited until 28 July 1958 to make his maiden speech, a few peers (viz. Earl Ferrers and Lords Renton, Carrington and Healey) can be considered to have been active parliamentarians longer. Moreover, on the Privy Council only the Duke of Edinburgh (1951) and Lords Carrington (1959), Deedes and Renton (both 1962) had served longer. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert Washington Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers (born 8 June 1929) is British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords as one of the remaining hereditary peers. ... David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, KBE, QC, TD, DL, PC (born 12 August 1908), is a British politician. ... The Right Honourable Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC,DL (born 6 June 1919) is a British Conservative politician and served as British Foreign Secretary between 1979 and 1982 and as Secretary-General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. ... Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, CH, MBE, PC (born 30 August 1917), is a British Labour politician, regarded by some (especially in the Labour Party) as the best Prime Minister we never had.[1] Denis Healey was born in Mottingham in Kent but in 1917 moved to Keighley, then in... The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, (Philip Mountbatten; born Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark, 10 June 1921) is the second cousin once removed, husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Originally a Prince of Greece and Denmark, Prince Philip abandoned those titles to serve in the Royal Navy of... The Right Honourable Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC,DL (born 6 June 1919) is a British Conservative politician and served as British Foreign Secretary between 1979 and 1982 and as Secretary-General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. ... The Right Honourable William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, DL, PC (born 1 June 1913) is a veteran British journalist and a former politician. ... David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, KBE, QC, TD, DL, PC (born 12 August 1908), is a British politician. ...

Character

In May 1973, at the time of his resignation from the government, friends are quoted as saying:

' If he has a fault it is because he wears his weaknesses on his sleeve. He is too frank. I suppose though, that is no bad thing. He was not flamboyant but he was a hedonist. He is the sort of non-pompous person who does not try to hide his weaknesses '

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Hercules, known for his strength, courage and sexual prowess

In July 1970 he was banned from driving for a year and fined 75 pounds with 20 guineas costs for having consumed more than the permitted level of alcohol in Old Brompton Road at 4 a.m. on 21 March 1970. Luck saw to it that the case came after the General Election and the ban coincided with the arrival of his right to a full time government car. Heracles (Roman statue in bronze) - in the Louvre, Paris File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Heracles (Roman statue in bronze) - in the Louvre, Paris File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Hercules, a Roman bronze (Louvre Museum) For other uses, see Heracles (disambiguation). ...

In 2000 his friend the former UK Ambassador to Washington, Sir Nicholas Henderson, wrote: Nicholas Henderson (1919– ) is a retired British career diplomat and writer. ...

'George is a man of moods. He is not complicated but a many-sided character. There are in fact four Georges: there is George the First, the unabstemious, boisterous Lothario, with a leer like a roué in a Peter Arno cartoon, blessed with an iron constitution and athletic prowess that enabled him to have been on the verge of the British Olympic ski and sleigh teams; then we have Hero George, the dashing man of action, a leader who whether descending by parachute or commanding by sea, kept the enemy on tenterhooks in the Eastern Mediterranean throughout the war; thirdly, there is George the aesthete and sightseer, who, with little finger raised, will speak discerningly of paintings, mosaics and furniture, a great patron of the arts, his talent as a collector manque only due to lack of funds, which has not prevented some bold purchases; and finally we have pensive George, scholar and public servant, concerned to promote the national interest, high-minded, cautious and conscientious'.

' A striking and irrepressible feature of that character has been his easy communion with members of the opposite sex, and this may have been prefigured by an early experience. He spent some time as a small boy in New Zealand where his father was Governor-General. George wanted to become a wolf cub, but no pack was available, so instead he joined the Brownies. He got on very well with them'.

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Lord Jellicoe married firstly, in 1944, Patricia the daughter of Jeremiah O'Kane, of Shanghai and then of Vancouver, they had two sons and two daughters. He married secondly, in 1966, Philippa the daughter of Philip Dunne M.C. (1904-1965), they had one son and two daughters. (In all he had eight children, born between 1944 and 1984). He was a member of Brooks's, the Special Forces Club and was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. Captain Philip Russell Rendel Dunne, MC (28 February 1904 – 13 April 1965) was an English soldier and politician. ... The interior of a gaming room at Brookss, 1808, print by Rowlandson and Pugin Brookss is a London gentlemens club, founded in 1764 by 27 men, including four dukes. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Worshipful Company of Mercers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. ...

Lorna Windmill's biography termed Jellicoe a British Achilles on account of two of his careers derailing as a result of women: in the 1950s for love, and in the 1970s for escorts. Otherwise A British Odysseus might have served. The Wrath of Achilles, by François-Léon Benouville (1821–1859) (Musée Fabre) In Greek mythology, Achilles, also Akhilleus or Achilleus (Ancient Greek ) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest warrior of Homers Iliad, which takes for its theme, not the War... Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. ... Head of Odysseus from a Greek 2nd century BC marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga Odysseus (Greek Odusseus), pronounced /oʊˈdɪs. ...

Honours

• Page of Honour to King George VI at his Coronation (12 May 1937)
• Distinguished Service Order (DSO) (1942)
• Military Cross (MC) (1944)
• Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (1945)
• Croix de Guerre (1945)
• Greek Order of Honour (1950)
• Greek War Cross (1950)
• Privy Counsellor (PC) (1963)
• Freeman of the City of Athens
• Knight of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) (1986)
• Hon. Admiral in the Texas Navy (1988)
• 27 October 1988 was Lord Earl Jellicoe Day in the City of Houston
• Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (1990)
• Grand Commander Order of Honour (Greece, 1991)
• UK Life Peer (1999)
• Winston S. Churchill Allied Nations Award (2003, USA).

• Hon. degrees from:

• King's College, London (Fellow (FKC) 1979)
• Southampton University (LLD, 1985)
• Long Island University (1987).

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References

• Old Friends and Modern Instances, by Nicholas Henderson, Profile, 2001 (chapter nine, pages 105-116).
• A British Achilles: The Story of George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, by Lorna Almonds Windmill, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley, 2006.
• Dod's Parliamentary Companion, 2007.
• Burke's Peerage, 107th edition, 2003.
• Review of the Operation of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1976, by the Rt. Hon. Earl Jellicoe, DSO, MC., Command 8803, HMSO, February 1983.
• The Boxer Rebellion, The Fifth Wellington Lecture, University of Southampton, by the Rt Hon the Earl Jellicoe, KBE, DSO, MC, LLD, FRS, PC, University of Southampton, 1993.
• Special Boat Squadron, The Story of the SBS in the Mediterranean, by Barrie Pitt, Century Publishing, London, 1983.
• The Life of John Rushworth, Earl Jellicoe, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O, L.L.D., D.C.L., by Admiral Sir R. H. Bacon, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., D.S.O., Cassell, London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney, 1936.
• House of Lords Hansard, Monday 26 February 2007: Tributes: Earl Jellicoe.
• Obituaries

• The Independent (Dennis Kavanagh), Saturday 24 February 2007.
• The Times, The Daily Telegraph, & The Guardian (Andrew Roth): Monday 26 February 2007.
• Financial Times (Sue Cameron): Tuesday 27 February 2007.
• Yesterday in Parliament (David Wilby), BBC Radio Four, Tuesday 27 February 2007.
• The Week, (a digest of the above), 3 March 2007.
• The Spectator (Patrick Leigh Fermor), 3 March 2007.
• BBC Radio Four's Last Word, Friday 2 March 2007, (tx: circa15:20-15:28).

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External link

• Announcement of his taking the oath for the first time as Lord Jellicoe of Southampton, House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 23 November 1999
• Speech to The Churchill Centre Inc., from proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1994-95.
• Jellicoe on the Ukraine. His last full speech in the Lords, 28 October 1996.
• Independent obituary
• Tributes: Earl Jelicoe Link to Hansard, Monday 26 February 2007.