Christopher Lintrup Paus

Christopher "Kiff" Lintrup Paus (; 6 November 1881 in – 28 May 1963) was a British diplomat, who served at the British Embassy in Oslo for several decades, as commercial counsellor and as the British consul in Oslo and head of the British consular service in Norway. He wrote several published reports on industrial and economic affairs in Norway. Paus attended Bradford Grammar School. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford (1900–1904), graduating with a master's degree in 1904.

Family

A member of the Norwegian Paus family, he was a son of the Norwegian-born businessman Christopher Paus (1843–1919) of Manchester and an English mother, Ellen née Lord (1847–1917). He was a brother of the British businessmen Charles Johan Paus and Rudolph Henrik Paus, co-owners of the Manchester firm Blydt, Paus and Pace, and of the businessman Oscar Lionel Paus (1880–1917), who died as a British lieutenant in the First World War. He was married to Gunda Resch Knudsen, daughter of the Norwegian ship-owner and Member of Parliament Jørgen Christian Knudsen and a niece of Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen. He was a grandson of Henrik Johan Paus and a first cousin of papal chamberlain, count Christopher Tostrup Paus. His father was a first cousin of playwright Henrik Ibsen.

Legacy Some of his private papers are owned by the Imperial War Museum.

Honours Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), in the 1918 New Year Honours