Christopher "Kiff" Lintrup Paus (; 6 November 1881 in – 28 May 1963) 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

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and

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(1900–1904), where he graduated with a master's degree in 1904. 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

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on 27 April 1941. A member of the Norwegian

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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

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. 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 Gunnar Knudsen (19 September 1848 – 1 December 1928), born Aanon Gunerius Knudsen, was a Norwegian politician from the Liberal Party who served as the prime minister of Norway twice from 1908 to 1910 and from 1913 to 1920. He also inherited a s ...

. 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

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. Some of his private papers are owned by the

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.Chris Mann, ''British Policy and Strategy Towards Norway, 1941–45'', p. 273, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012,

Honours

Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(OBE), in the

1918 New Year Honours The 1918 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were published in ''The London Gazette'' and ''The Times'' in Janu ...

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(CBE), in the

1920 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 1920 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 1 January 1920 and 30 March 1920 (referred to as the 1920 civi ...

King George VI Coronation Medal The King George VI Coronation Medal was a commemorative medal, instituted to celebrate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Issue This medal was awarded as a personal souvenir of King George VI's coronation. It was awarded to th ...

(1937)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paus, Christopher Lintrup British diplomats Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Christopher Lintrup 1881 births 1963 deaths Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford People educated at Bradford Grammar School British people of Norwegian descent British expatriates in Norway