Sherfield, Roger Mellor Makins, Baron, 1904-1996

found: NUCMC data from Harry S. Truman Library for European political leaders and journalists concerned with the Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program) oral history interviews, ca. 1965-1983(Roger Makins)

found: LC data base 6-7-90(hdg.: Sherfield, Roger Mellor Makins, Baron, 1904- ; usage: Lord Sherfield) LC man. auth. cd. (hdg.: Sherfield, Roger Mellor Makins, Baron, 1904- ; former chrm. U.K. Atomic Energy Auth.; Sir Roger Makins; Sir Roger Mellor Makins, 1904- ; created Baron U.K. 1964)

found: Intern. year book and statesmen's who's who, 1956(Makins, Sir Roger Mellor; British diplomat; b. 1904)

found: Atomic energy and international relations, 1955title page (Sir Roger Makins)

found: Economic and social consequences of nuclear energy, 1972:title page (edited by Lord Sherfield)

found: Wikipedia, October 4, 2013(Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield; Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, GCB GCMG FRS (3 February 1904 - 9 November 1996), was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1953 to 1956; he was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1927; he never practiced law and instead joined the Diplomatic Service in 1928; Makins served as Minister 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; 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; Makins was a notable collector of Victorian art; the Makins Collection contained important works by John Everett Millais)

found: The Peerage, via WWW, October 4, 2013(Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield; born on 3 February 1904; he was the son of Sir Ernest Makins and Maria Florence Mellor; he died on 9 November 1996 at age 92; he was Knight Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.) in 1949; he was Knight Commander, Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) ) in 1953; he was Knight Grand Cross, Order of St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.) in 1955; he was Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath (G.C.B.)1960; editor of Economic and Social Consequences of Nuclear Energy, 1972)