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Jebb is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
Gladwyn is a given name which may refer to:
Cynthia Jebb, Baroness Gladwyn was an English political hostess and diarist. She was noted as the wife of the UK's representative on the Security Council of the United Nations and as a hostess in Paris where her husband was the British Ambassador.
References
- ↑ "No. 42006". The London Gazette . 12 April 1960. p. 2651.
- ↑ Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2017
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [ self-published source ][ better source needed ]