Miles Lampson

The Right Honourable The Lord Killearn GCMG CB MVO PC
His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to Egypt and the Sudan
In office 1936–1946
Preceded by	Himself (as UK High Commissioner)
Succeeded by	Sir Ronald Campbell
His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner to Egypt and the Sudan
In office 1934–1936
Preceded by	Sir Percy Loraine
Succeeded by	Himself (as UK Ambassador)
Personal details
Born	Miles Wedderburn Lampson 24 August 1880
Died	18 September 1964 (aged 84)

Miles Wedderburn Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn GCMG CB MVO PC (24 August 1880 – 18 September 1964) was a British diplomat.

Miles Lampson was the son of Norman Lampson, and grandson of Sir Curtis Lampson, 1st Baronet. His mother was Helen, daughter of Peter Blackburn, MP for Stirlingshire. He was educated at Eton.

Lampson entered the Foreign Office in 1903. He served as Secretary to Garter Mission, Japan, in 1906, as 2nd Secretary at Tokyo, Japan, between 1908 and 1910, as 2nd Secretary at Sofia, Bulgaria in 1911, as 1st Secretary at Peking in 1916, as Acting British High Commissioner in Siberia in 1920 and as British Minister to China between 1926 and 1933. In 1934 he was appointed High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan. As a result of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in December 1936 Britain loosened its grip on Egypt the post title was changed to Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for the Sudan in 1936. Lampson continued in this office until 1946. As ambassador to Egypt he forced King Farouk I to change the cabinet to a wafdist one through surrounding the king's palace with tanks. He was then Special Commissioner in Southeast Asia between 1946 and 1948. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1941 and raised to the peerage as Baron Killearn, of Killearn in the County of Stirling, on 17 May 1943. He was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon of Japan and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon of Japan.

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