Stephen Tallents
Sir Stephen Tallents (born October 20, 1884 in London , † September 11, 1958 in London) was a British officer and government official.
Life
During World War I he served in the Irish Guards regiment and was seriously wounded. After his recovery, he worked as a government official.
From 1919 to 1920, Tallents was head of the British Commission in the Baltic provinces of the Baltic Sea, which were formerly part of the Russian Empire , acted temporarily as civil governor of Riga in July 1919 and in 1920 established the national border between Estonia and Latvia . He was then secretary (since 1920) of the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Edmund Fitzalan-Howard (1855-1947).
From 1928 to 1933 he served as Secretary of the Empire Marketing Board (EMB). In 1932 he was raised to the nobility. Tallents was the first director of public relations at the BBC and later its deputy director under Lord Reith .
Web links
- www.screenonline.org.uk - biography (English)
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Link to casbah.ac.uk )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen Tallents: Man and Boy , Chapter: The Estonian Border , London 1942.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tallents, Stephen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Government Official; Secretary of the Empire Marketing Board (1928–1933) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1958 |
| Place of death | London |