Background
Miles Lampson was the son of Norman Lampson, and grandson of Sir Curtis Lampson, 1st Baronet. His mother was Helen, daughter of Peter Blackburn, Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire.
Miles Lampson was the son of Norman Lampson, and grandson of Sir Curtis Lampson, 1st Baronet. His mother was Helen, daughter of Peter Blackburn, Member of Parliament 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.
The post was upgraded 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.
Lord Killearn married firstly Rachel, daughter of William Wilton Phipps, in 1912.
Graham Curtis Lampson, 2nd Baron Killearn (1919–1996). He died leaving daughters only, the youngest
Honorary Mary Lampson
Honorary Margaret Lampson
Honorary
Nadine Marisa Lampson (married to Sir Nicholas Bonsor, Bt).
Victor Miles George Aldous Lampson, 3rd Baron Killearn. He has issue, including a son and heir apparent.
Honorary Honorary Roxana Rose Catherine Naila Lampson.
The 3rd Lord Killearn took legal action in 2011 to prevent his mother selling off the family home, Haremere Hall.