George Labouchère

Sir George Peter Labouchere (2 December 1905 in London – 14 June 1999 in Dudmaston Hall, Shropshire) was a British diplomat and collector of modern art.

Career Labouchere was educated at Charterhouse School and the Sorbonne, and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1929.

He was Deputy-Commissioner for Austria, 1951–53, Minister to Hungary 1953–55, Ambassador to Belgium 1955–60, and Ambassador to Spain 1960–66.

Family Labouchere was a descendant of an old Huguenot merchant family exiled in the 17th century to England, which included prominent politicians such as Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton and Henry Du Pré Labouchere. His father was Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Anthony Labouchere, a banker and reserve officer, and his mother was Evelyn Stirling, only child of Sir Walter Stirling, 3rd Baronet of Faskine. granddaughter of the 8th Viscount Boyne. Dudmaston Hall, now run by the National Trust, was Rachel Hamilton-Russell's ancestral home, inherited from her maternal uncle Geoffrey Wolryche-Whitmore, and the couple settled there to restore it in their retirement. He was president of the Shropshire branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England. knighted KCMG in 1955 and given the additional, senior knighthood of GBE in the 1964 Birthday Honours.