Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon, GCMG KCVO OBE PC (8 October 1907 – 5 September 1990) was a British diplomat who oversaw moves to independence in various colonies and was UK representative to the United Nations.
Foot was the son of solicitor and Liberal Party MP Isaac Foot, and brother of the MP Sir Dingle Foot, the life peer Lord Foot, and Labour Party MP and former party leader Michael Foot. He was the father of the late Paul Foot, a journalist.
Foot's career in the diplomatic service was long and distinguished. During the Second World War, he was British Military Administrator of Cyrenaica, 1943 then Colonial Secretary of Cyprus, 1943-1945. After the War, he served as Colonial Secretary of Jamaica, 1945-1947, Chief Secretary for Nigeria, 1947-1950 and Captain General and Governor in Chief of Jamaica, 1951-1957.
He returned to Cyprus as the last colonial Governor and Commander in Chief, 1957-1960. In 1961, he became British Ambassador to the United Nations Trusteeship Council. After Harold Wilson won the 1964 election, Foot became Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and British Ambassador to the United Nations from 1964-1970. After his retirement, he became a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and Princeton University.
Foot was created a life peer as Baron Caradon, of St Cleer in the County of Cornwall, in 1964.
[edit] External links
Categories: 1907 births | 1990 deaths | Former British Ambassadors to the United Nations | Presidents of the Cambridge Union Society | Life peers | British diplomats | British colonial governors and administrators | Governors of Jamaica | Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George | Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order | Officers of the Order of the British Empire | Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom | Old Leightonians | Alumni of the University of Cambridge | History of Cyprus
