Lampson entered the Foreign Office in 1903. He served as Secretary to Garter Mission, Japan, in 1906, as 2nd Secretary at Tokyo, Japan, between 1908 and 1910, as 2nd Secretary at Sofia, Bulgaria in 1911, as 1st Secretary at Peking in 1916, as Acting British High Commissioner in Siberia in 1920 and as British Minister to China between 1926 and 1933.
After Rachel's death in 1930 he married secondly Jacqueline Aldine Leslie Castellani (1910–2015),[4] daughter of Aldo Castellani, KCMG (Hon.), in 1934. They had one son and two daughters:
Hon. Roxana Rose Catherine Naila Lampson. She married Ian Ross, mother of six children, including the musicians Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and the model Liberty Ross.
Lampson was a close personal friend of Sir Edward Peel.
Succession
Lord Killearn died in September 1964, aged 84, and was succeeded in the barony by his son by his first marriage, Graham. As Graham died without male heirs, the title subsequently passed to Lord Killearn's son from his second marriage, Victor.
The 3rd Lord Killearn took legal action in 2011 to prevent his mother selling off the family home, Haremere Hall.[5]
Arms
Coat of arms of Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
Crest
A gryphon's head erased Gules charged with an escarbuncle Argent between two wings paly of four Argent and Gules.
Escutcheon
Per saltire Argent and Gules two gryphons' heads in fess and as many escarbuncles in pale counterchanged.
Supporters
Dexter a camel Proper with head stall and rope reflexed over the back Gules, sinister a Chinese dragon also Proper.
The Killearn Diaries, 1934–1946, London: Sidwick and Jackson, 1972.
Yapp, M.E. (ed.): Politics and diplomacy in Egypt: The diaries of Sir Miles Lampson, 1935–1937, Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1997.
Lord Killearn's Diaries: Custodial history: In the possession of Lord Killearn, the Lampson family, Drs Trefor Evans and David Steeds of the University of Aberystwyth. Reference code: GB165-0176. Dates of creation: 1926–1951. 8 boxes 25 volumes. Scope and content: 25 MS and TS volumes of diaries, 1926–51, covering his service in China, Egypt and the Sudan, and South-East Asia.
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