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Christopher "Kiff" Lintrup Paus (born 6 November 1881 in Chorlton-on-Medlock, died 28 May 1963 in Grantown-on-Spey) () 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.〔 He attended Jesus College, Oxford (1900–1904), where he graduated with a master's degree. He became commercial attaché at the British Embassy in Oslo in December 1914, in succession to Sir Francis Oppenheimer, was promoted to commercial secretary for Norway in May 1919 and served as the British consul in Oslo from 1926 to 1931. In 1939 he was promoted to the personal rank of counsellor of embassy. He retired from His Majesty's Diplomatic Service on 27 April 1941.〔"Christopher Lintrup Paus," obituary, ''The Times'', 29 May 1963〕 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.〔Jørgen C. Knudsen, Ellen Wessel, Lulli Knudsen, ''Våre besteforeldre : Guro og Christen Knudsen : deres barn og barnebarn'', 1999, originally published 1929 (with picture, p. 256)〕 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. Some of his private papers are owned by the Imperial War Museum.〔Chris Mann, ''British Policy and Strategy Towards Norway, 1941–45'', p. 273, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ISBN 0230210228〕 ==Honours== *Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), in the 1918 New Year Honours〔 *Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), in the 1920 New Year Honours〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Lintrup Paus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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