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General Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay KG GCB CH DSO PC (
21 June 1887–
17 December 1965) was a
British soldier and diplomat.
Ismay was educated at
Charterhouse and
Sandhurst before being commissioned in
1905. He joined the
Indian Army in the 21st Cavalry and served on the
North-West Frontier. During and immediately after
World War I (from
1914 to
1920), Ismay saw action in
British Somaliland against
Mohammed bin Abdullah (
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan), the "
Mad Mullah." He was a staff officer with the
Somaliland Camel Corps.
Following the conclusion of operations in Somaliland Ismay held a number of staff and teaching appointments before becoming in
1931 military secretary to
Lord Willingdon, then
Viceroy of India. From
1933 until
1940 Ismay occupied various staff positions within the
War Office, eventually becoming Secretary of the
Committee of Imperial Defence in 1938.
In 1940 he was selected by
Winston Churchill as his chief of his personal staff at the Ministry of Defence, with the duty of liaison between the War Cabinet and Chiefs of Staff. He was promoted
lieutenant-general in in 1942 and
general in 1944, retiring from the British Army in 1946.
In January 1947 he was raised to the
peerage as
Baron Ismay, of Wormington in the County of Gloucester. Lord Ismay served as chief of staff to
Lord Mountbatten of Burma, then
Viceroy of India, March to November 1947. In
1951 he was made
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, and in
1952 became the first
Secretary General of NATO, a post he held until
1957. He once famously remarked that NATO had been formed to "keep the Americans in, the Soviets out and the Germans down."
Lord Ismay died in 1965 at the age of 78. Without a male heir, his title became extinct.
He was nicknamed "Pug", which is the name by which both Mountbatten and Churchill knew him.
Publications
- The memoirs of General the Lord Ismay (Heinemann, London, 1960)
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