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9 unusual facts about Sir Fitzroy Maclean


Fitzroy Maclean

Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet (1911–1996), Scottish diplomat, soldier, adventurer, author

Hans von Herwarth

Fitzroy Maclean, then a young diplomat in the British Embassy, states in his memoir Eastern Approaches that Herwarth condemned the appeasement of the Munich Agreement, predicted a Soviet-German commitment to non-aggression (which came to pass as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact), and saw ahead to what he called "the destruction of Germany".

Jeremy Phipps

In 1946, she married secondly Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, who raised Phipps, who was educated at Ampleforth and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Korčula

Sir Fitzroy Maclean, (1911–1996), soldier, writer and politician, from Scotland.

Lachlan Lubanach Maclean

A fictionalized legendary account of Lachlan's marriage and coming in possession of Duart was given by Fitzroy Maclean in The Isles of The Sea.

Lancaster by-election, 1941

The local Conservatives selected first time candidate, 30 year-old Lt. Fitzroy MacLean.

St Giles' Cathedral

Knights have included Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Mackay of Clashfern and Sir Fitzroy Maclean.

Treaty of Vis

The signing of the agreement was pushed by Winston Churchill, who had his people watching over the negotiations, "on hand but hands off", as described in Eastern Approaches: Ralph Stevenson, ambassador to the government in exile, and Fitzroy Maclean, the soldier-ambassador liaison to Tito.

Trial of the Twenty-One

Fitzroy Maclean's autobiography Eastern Approaches has a chapter devoted to this trial, which he witnessed while working in Moscow for the British Foreign Office.


Randolph Churchill

In both the Western Desert Campaign and Yugoslavia, Churchill crossed paths with Fitzroy Maclean, who wrote of their adventures, and some of the problems Churchill caused him, in his memoir Eastern Approaches.


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