Ivone Kirkpatrick

His Excellency Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick GCB GCMG
Kirkpatrick at his desk in London as Deputy Commissioner to the Inter-Allied Control Commission in Germany in 1944
British High Commissioner at Allied High Commission
In office 1950–1953
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Sir Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge
Succeeded by	Frederick Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 1953–1957
Prime Minister	Sir Anthony Eden
Preceded by	William Strang, 1st Baron Strang
Succeeded by	Frederick Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra
Chairman of the Independent Television Authority
In office 1957–1962
Preceded by	Kenneth Clark
Succeeded by	Charles Hill
Personal details
Born	3 February 1897
Died	25 May 1964 (Aged 67)
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Lady Violet Kirkpatrick
Children	Ivone Peter Kirkpatrick (1930-2013) Cecilia Sybil Kirkpatrick (1932-Unknown)
Profession	Diplomat
Religion	Roman Catholic

Ivone Peter Kirkpatrick (1930-2013)

Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick GCB GCMG (1897 – 25 May 1964) was a British diplomat who served as the British High Commissioner in Germany after World War II, and as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the highest-ranking civil servant in the Foreign Office)

Kirkpatrick was born on 3 February 1897 in Wellington, India, the elder son of Colonel Ivone Kirkpatrick(1860–1936) of the South Staffordshire Regiment, and his wife, Mary (d. 1931), daughter of General Sir Arthur Edward Hardinge, later Commander-in-Chief, Bombay army, and Governor of Gibraltar.

His father was a descendant of a Scottish family which settled in Ireland during the eighteenth century. His mother was former maid of honour to Queen Victoria, and her grandfather Henry Hardinge, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore, served in the cabinets of Wellington and Peel, and was later governor-general of India in 1844–8. Her first cousin, Charles Hardinge, Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, was Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office in 1906–10 and 1916–20, and Viceroy of India in 1910–16.

Being a Roman Catholic, Kirkpatrick was sent to Downside School to be educated between 1907 and 1914. Kirkpatrick volunteered for active service on the outbreak of the First World War and was commissioned in November 1914 in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Severely wounded in action against the Turks in August 1915, he was accepted by Balliol College, Oxford, in October, but chose to resume his war service early in 1916 when he was employed in propaganda and intelligence activities for the GHQ intelligence service Wallinger London. During the last year of the war he was stationed in Rotterdam in the Netherlands as replacement for Sigismund Payne Best. From there he worked as a spy master, running a network of Belgian resistance agents operating in German-occupied Belgium.