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George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, Baron Jellicoe of Southampton (4 April 1918 – 22 February 2007) was a British politician, diplomat and businessman.
3 mar 2007 · A brave man, a born hero and a true friend of Greece, George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl of Jellicoe, British politician and statesman, diplomatist and businessman, died at his home in England on February 22.
12 dic 2008 · Abstract. George Jellicoe had at least five (and very nearly six) different careers, all of them successful. Two of them were brought to an end as the result of separate imbroglios involving women, the contemporary reactions to which now seem antique—particularly the first, involving as it did Foreign Office disapproval of the ...
- William Waldegrave
- 2008
He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge succeeding his father as 2nd Earl Jellicoe in 1935, at the age of 17. He chose not to follow his celebrated father into the navy, but instead had a very distinguished military career during the Second World War.
22 feb 2006 · Close on the first half of the book is devoted to George Jellicoe’s military adventures during the Second World War, first with David Stirling and then as Officer Commanding of the SBS raiding the islands of the Dodecanese from Haifa.
Until his death in 2007, the second Earl Jellicoe was the longest-serving member of the Lords, and technically the longest-serving parliamentarian in the world, having taken his seat in 1939.
14 giu 2024 · Had it not been for Lorna Almonds Windmill’s excellent biography, George Jellicoe – one of Britain’s most remarkable surviving heroes of the Second World War – might well have remained forgotten.
