Frederick Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra

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Millar (first left) as U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the North Atlantic Treaty (1949)

Frederick Robert Hoyer Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra GCMG CVO (6 June 1900 – 16 October 1989), was a British diplomat who served as Ambassador to West Germany from 1955 to 1956.

Background and early career[]

The son of Robert Hoyer Millar, he was educated at Wellington and New College, Oxford. Millar entered the Diplomatic Service in 1923, and served in various capacities at the British embassies in Berlin, Paris and Cairo and at the Foreign Office. From 1934 to 1938 he was Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon, Sir Samuel Hoare and Anthony Eden respectively).

Senior diplomatic appointments[]

During the Second World War he served chiefly at the British embassy in Washington D.C., where he was also Minister Plenipotentiary from 1948 to 1950. Millar was also the United Kingdom Deputy at the North Atlantic Council from 1950 to 1952 and its Representative thereon from 1952 to 1953. The latter year Millar was appointed High Commissioner to the British Zone of occupied Germany, a post he held until 1955, and was then Ambassador to West Germany from 1955 to 1956. After his return to Britain he served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1957 to 1962.

Honours and personal life[]

Millar was made a KCMG in 1949 and a GCMG in 1956, and in 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Inchyra, of St Madoes in the County of Perth.[1]

Lord Inchyra married in 1931 Jonkvrouw Anna Judith Elisabeth de Marees van Swinderen (1906–1999), daughter of Jonkheer René de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1908–13) and Ambassador in London (1913–37). They had four children, two sons and two daughters. Their older daughter Elizabeth married Billy Wallace in 1965.[2]

Their younger daughter, Dame Annabel Whitehead, was a Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Margaret and later to the Queen.[3][4]

His granddaughter is married to Conservative Party politician Matt Hancock.

Death[]

Lord Inchyra died in October 1989, aged 89. He was succeeded in the Barony by his elder son, Robert, the 2nd Baron Inchyra.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick 		British High Commissioner at Allied High Commission
1953–1955 		Succeeded by
Himself
as Ambassador
Preceded by
Himself
as High Commissioner 		British Ambassador to West Germany
1955–1956 		Succeeded by
Sir Christopher Steel
Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick 		Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office
1957–1962 		Succeeded by
Sir Harold Caccia
Heraldic offices
Preceded by
Sir Nevile Bland 		King of Arms of the
Order of St Michael and St George
1962–1975 		Succeeded by
Sir Morrice James
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Inchyra
1962–1989 		Succeeded by

References[]

  1. ^ "No. 42588". The London Gazette. 2 February 1962. p. 877.
  2. ^ "Billy Wallace weds 1965". British Pathe.
  3. ^ "Ladies in Waiting and Equerries". Official website of the Royal Family.
  4. ^ "Yvonne's Royalty Home Page: Royal Godchildren". Users.uniserve.com. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  • 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]
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