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General The_Right_Honourable '''Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay''', PC (21_June 1887–17_December 1965) was a British soldier, diplomat and painter.
He joined the Indian Army and served during World_War_I in Somaliland. During World_War_II he was Winston_Churchill's Chief of Staff, retiring from the British Army in 1946. He then served as chief of staff to Lord Mountbatten of Burma, then Viceroy_of_India. In 1951 he was made Secretary_of_State_for_Commonwealth_Relations, and in 1952 became the first Secretary General of NATO, a post he held until 1957.
In January 1947 he was raised to the Peerage as '''Baron Ismay''', of Wormington in the County of Gloucester. Reputedly a homosexual, Baron Ismay died without heirs and hence on his death the title became extinct.
==Biography==
*Born in 1887
*Educated at Charterhouse and Royal_Military_College,_Sandhurst
*Commissioned 1905
*Joined 21_Cavalry_(Frontier_Force), Indian Army, 1907
*North-West Frontier, India, 1908
*World_War_I, 1914-1918
*Operations_in_Somaliland against Mohammed_bin_Abdullah (The Mad Mullah), 1914-1920
*Staff_College,_Quetta, India, 1922
*Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, Army Headquarters, India, 1923
*RAF_Staff_College,_Andover, 1924
*Army Headquarters, India, 1925
*Assistant Secretary, Committee_of_Imperial_Defence, 1926-1930
*Military Secretary to Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Earl of Willingdon, Viceroy_of_India, 1931-1933
*General Staff Officer Grade 1, War Office, 1933-1936
*Deputy Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1936-1938
*Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1938
*Chief of Staff to Ministry of Defence, 1940-1945
*Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet, 1940-1945
*Additional Secretary (Military) to the Cabinet, 1945
*Made Baron Ismay of Wormington, 1947
*Chief of Staff to Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma, last Viceroy_of_India, Mar-Nov 1947
*Secretary_of_State_for_Commonwealth_Relations, 1951-1952
*Secretary-General, North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organisation (NATO), 1952-1957
*Vice Chairman, North_Atlantic_Council, 1952-1956
*Chairman, North Atlantic Council, 1956-1957
*Died in 1965
''Source'': Liddell_Hart_Centre_for_Military_Archives
==Publications==
*''The memoirs of General the Lord Ismay'' (Heinemann, London, 1960)
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