Edward Mortimer CMG (born 22 December 1943 in Burford, Oxfordshire) was until January 2007 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General.
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Mortimer was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2010 New Year Honours.
The address was attended by 800 distinguished guests including Edward Mortimer who presided the session and Hugo Summerson, Member of Parliament.
King Edward VII | Edward I of England | Edward III of England | Edward VIII | Edward VII | Prince Edward Island | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | Edward III | Edward | Edward Heath | Edward G. Robinson | Edward Albee | Edward Elgar | Edward I | Edward IV of England | Edward VI of England | King Edward's School, Birmingham | Edward Hopper | Edward Gibbon | Edward Burne-Jones | Prince Edward | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Edward II of England | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | Edward Weston | Edward James Olmos | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | Edward R. Murrow | James Francis Edward Stuart | Edward the Confessor |
He joined Edward Mortimer of Pictou and William Cottnam Tonge of Halifax to form a "country party" that opposed powerful Halifax merchants allied with then Lieutenant Governor, Sir John Wentworth and the Privy Council, who favoured development of Halifax town at the expense of rural areas and were known at the time as the "court party".
In 1939, she married Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg, a founder of the Jewish Museum; the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); and the American Ballet, the precursor of the New York City Ballet.