JELLICOE FOLLOWS LAMBTON — RESIGNS TORY POST

TORY national security supremo Lord signed before lunch yesterday because of ment with prostitutes.

In a letter to Prime fessed to 'some casual justification for linking call girls.

The resignation came only under-Secretary Lord Anthony Lambton quit.

The 50-year-old peer - the sixth Earl of Durham had he not disclaimed his title to remain in the House of Commons —resigned his office and his seat after news broke that he had been photographed in compromising positions with call girls.

Like Lambton, Lord George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe was known as a man of 'charm', a 'good mixer', 'convivial' and as a man with 'wide contacts' • He was the head of the permanent security committee the Tories set up last March to deal with national emergencies primarily the dislocation caused by strikes.

The committee he headed was comprised by the heads of the military, the police, the secret service and civil servants.

The Heath government used the pretext of the central London bomb incidents last March to set up a body with the widest martial powers ever known in peacetime.

The committee had first seen the light of day even earlier at the end of last January's miners' strike when Jellicoe was appointed to get the country 'back to normal'.

In a national emergency the £13,000-a-year Cabinet minister, who has quit one jump ahead of the disclosure of an international call-girl scandal, would have been the most powerful Jellicoe re. • Lora jellicut Itause of his involve- his involve.

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man in Britain beside Minister. •Jellicoe was Lord Privy Seal, an historic post with no administrative responsibilities, 1Cserved for 'statesmen' and politicians of exceptional abilities that a government leader wants in his Cabinet.

A personal friend of was in this capacity that the Tory leader gave him responsibility for national security.

He certainly had some notable qualifications for the joo.

During the war, in which he covered his chest in medals and was mentioned in despatches, the man who ended up as a colonel served in the notorious Special Air Services regiment.

The regiment is used for espionage and counter-insurgency work and has units stationed in Ulster. • Jellicoe was a member of the Cabinet and as such one of the score of men responsible for major decisions of government.

He was leader of the House of Lords with responsibilities for master-minding government business through the House and conveying the Cabinet's views.

A godson of King George V he was a member of the Privy Council - an inner group of advisers directly responsible to the Queen. 'UNCONNECTED WITH arrives for The Privy Council has the power to instantly make orders without the sanction of the Commons and which have the force of law throughout the land.

The 55-year-old peer was deputy leader of the Conservative Party in Sir Alec Douglas Home's 1964 administration an office recently quit by Reginald Maudling because of his association with the Poulson Like Lambton, he has been connected with the Ministry of Defence. During the Tories' last year in office after '13 years of misrule' he was Minister of Defence, Royal Navy.

He stayed at the Ministry after the Profumo and Vassal scandals rocked the Macmillan government and forced 'Supermac' to resign.

In July 1963, the month after the Profumo story broke, Jellicoe retused a call from Lord Stonham to investigate prostitution. Stonham alleged that an increasing number of people were living off immoral earnings.

He has done his share of globe-trotting and after the war he got a job as a diplomat in the foreign service with postings in Washington, Brussels and Baghdad. • Jellicoe was Ci Minister and last M.. in the news again for his i... compromising implementation of Heath's pay policy against the civil servants.

A man noted for his refined taste and culture, it was during his tenure of office that the decision was made to impose museum charges.

The Earl has been married twice and has four daughters and three sons.

In July 1970 he was fined £75 and disqualified from driving for a year after he was found to have more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood.