Hugh Foot

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Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon (born October 8, 1907 in Plymouth , England , † September 5, 1990 in Plymouth) was a British colonial official and diplomat .

biography

Foot was the son of Isaac Foot , a member of the lower house of the Liberal Party and brother of Sir Dingle Foot , John Foot and the later chairman of the Labor Party Michael Foot , who also became members of the lower house. Because of their attitude towards the political left , the brothers later became known as "The Three Left Feet".

Unlike his brothers, Hugh Foot did not embark on a political career, but entered the colonial administration service in 1929, where he was initially employed in Palestine from 1929 to 1939 and then in Transjordan until 1943 . For his services in colonial administration, he was accepted as an officer in the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1939 .

In 1943 he joined the British Army as a lieutenant colonel and was briefly military administrator of Cyrenaica . In the same year he became colonial secretary in Cyprus and between 1945 and 1947 held the office of colonial secretary in Jamaica . He then became an employee of the colonial administration in Nigeria , where he saw the idea of ​​state sovereignty growing . In 1946 he was accepted as a Companion in the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).

He then returned to Jamaica, where he became Governor of the Crown Colony on April 7, 1951 and held this post as Captain General until November 18, 1957. In 1951 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) , in 1953 also appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) and in 1957 raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) .

In 1957, he succeeded John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, as governor of Cyprus, where he sought reconciliation between Greeks and Turks and drafted a plan for a peaceful settlement of the independence of Cyprus. August 1960 took place. Foot was thus the last British governor of Cyprus.

After the independence of Cyprus in 1961 he was appointed representative of Great Britain to the United Nations and there at the same time as senior advisor for the formation of new states. In 1962 he resigned in protest against British Rhodesia policy, but returned to the UN in 1963 and became special advisor for the development of Africa and commissioner for apartheid in South Africa .

After the election victory of the Labor Party under Harold Wilson , he was raised to life peer as Baron Caradon , of St Cleer in the County of Cornwall, in 1964 and thus received a seat in the House of Lords . During Wilson's reign he was also Permanent Representative to the UN in New York City between 1964 and 1970 . After his resignation in 1970, he remained active as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program in New York City until 1975 .

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predecessor Office successor
John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton Governor of Cyprus
1957–1960
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