Lewis Evelyn Gielgud, MBE (11 June 1894 – 25 February 1953) was an English scholar, writer, intelligence officer and humanitarian worker.
[1] The Counts Gielgud had owned the Gielgudziszki Castle on the River Niemen, but their estates were confiscated after they took part in a failed uprising against Russian rule in 1830–31.
[6] On the outbreak of the First World War he became an officer in the 6th Battalion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, but left active service after being wounded in 1915.
[7] He was given another army commission in 1940, serving in the War Office again and then being transferred to the Intelligence Corps (being promoted to his final rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the latter in 1942).
[6] In addition to his international work, Gielgud wrote two novels, Red Soil and The Wise Child; a travel book, About It and About; and three plays in collaboration with Naomi Mitchison: The Price of Freedom, As It Was in the Beginning, and Full Fathom Five (1932).