Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield

Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield

Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, GCB, GCMG, FRS (3 February 19049 November, 1996), was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1953 to 1956.

Makins was the son of Brigadier-General Sir Ernest Makins (1869-1959) and Florence Mellor. He was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1927. However, he never practiced and instead joined the Diplomatic Service in 1928. Makins later served as Minister at at the British Embassy in Washington from 1945 to 1947, as Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office from 1947 to 1948 and as Deputy Under-Secretary of State from 1948 to 1952. In 1953 he was appointed Ambassador to the United States, a post he held until 1956. After his return from Washington he served as Joint Permanent Secretary to The Treasury from 1956 to 1960 and as Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority from 1960 to 1964.

Makins was appointed to the post of Chancellor of the University of Reading in 1969, and retained this position until 1992.cite news | title = Reading welcomes its new chancellor | work = Bulletin | publisher = University of Reading | date = 2008-01-17 | pages = 6-7]

Makins became a CMG in 1944, a KCMG in 1949 and a GCMG in 1955 and was also a GCB and a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1960 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Sherfield, of Sherfield-on-Loddon in the County of Southampton.

On April 30, 1934, in an Episcopal ceremony in Tallahassee, Florida, he married an American, Alice Brooks Davis, the daughter of Dwight F. Davis, founder of the Davis Cup and former U.S. Secretary of War.

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* [http://openvault.wgbh.org/wapina/barcode50136sherfield_3/index.html/ Interview about the Korean War] for the WGBH series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age


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