- Frederick Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra
Frederick Robert Hoyer Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra GCMG CVO (
6 June ,1900 –16 October ,1989 ), was a British diplomat who served as Ambassador toWest Germany from 1955 to 1956.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 inBerlin ,Paris andCairo and at the Foreign Office. From 1934 to 1938 he was Assistant Private Secretary to theForeign Secretary (Sir John Simon ,Sir Samuel Hoare andAnthony Eden respectively). During theSecond World War he served chiefly at the British embassy in Washington, where he was alsoMinister Plenipotentiary from 1948 to 1950. Millar was also theUnited Kingdom Deputy at theNato 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 toWest Germany from 1955 to 1956. After his return to Britain he served asPermanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1957 to 1962. Millar was made aKCMG in 1949 and aGCMG in 1956, and in 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Inchyra, of St Madoes in the County of Perth.Lord Inchyra married in 1931 Elizabeth de Marees van Swinderland, daughter of Jonkheer Reneke de Marees van Swinderland of the
Netherlands . They had four children, two sons and two daughters. Lord Inchyra died in October 1989, aged 89. He was succeeded in the Barony by his eldest son Robert Charles Reneke Hoyer Millar.
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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
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