{{Short description|British diplomat}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Christopher Lintrup Paus |image = Christopher Lintrup Paus.jpg |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|CBE|country=GBR|size=100%}} |office = British Consul in Oslo |premier = |term_start = 1926 |term_end = 1931 |predecessor = |successor = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|11|6|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Chorlton-on-Medlock]], England, UK |death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|05|28|1881|11|df=y}} |death_place = [[Grantown-on-Spey]], Scotland, UK }} '''Christopher''' "'''Kiff'''" '''Lintrup Paus''' {{post-nominals|CBE|country=GBR}} ({{IPA|no|krɪˈstɔ̀fːər ˈpæʉs|lang}}; 6 November 1881 in – 28 May 1963) was a British diplomat, who served at the [[Embassy of the United Kingdom, Oslo|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.<ref name="ForeignOfficeList" />
==Early life and education== Paus spent his early childhood in [[Withington]] and later lived in [[Bradford]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archives.jesus.ox.ac.uk/names/13cd16e2-b3fa-4270-9a1a-ff74325daf0d|title=Paus, Christopher Lintrup (matr. Jesus 1900)|work=Jesus College Archives|accessdate=3 December 2025}}</ref> Paus attended [[Bradford Grammar School]]. He studied at [[Jesus College, Oxford]] (1900–1904), graduating with a master's degree in 1904.<ref>{{cite book |title=Oxford University Calendar |location=Oxford |publisher=[[University of Oxford]] |page= 379 |year= 1904 }}</ref><ref name="Debretts" />
==Career== Paus 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 [[Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service|His Majesty's Diplomatic Service]] on 27 April 1941.<ref name="ForeignOfficeList">{{cite book |title=The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book |location=London |publisher=[[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|Foreign Office]] |page=462 |year=1963 | chapter=Paus, Christopher Lintrup, C.B.E. }}</ref><ref>"Christopher Lintrup Paus," obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', 29 May 1963</ref>
==Family==
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]].<ref>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)</ref> He was a grandson of [[Henrik Johan Paus]] and a first cousin of papal chamberlain, count [[Christopher de Paus|Christopher Tostrup Paus]]. His father was a first cousin of playwright [[Henrik Ibsen]].
==Legacy== Some of his private papers are owned by the [[Imperial War Museum]].<ref>Chris Mann, ''British Policy and Strategy Towards Norway, 1941–45'', p. 273, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, {{ISBN|0230210228}}</ref>
==Honours== *[[Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]] (OBE), in the [[1918 New Year Honours]]<ref name="ForeignOfficeList" /> *[[Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]] (CBE), in the [[1920 New Year Honours]]<ref name="ForeignOfficeList" /> *[[King George VI Coronation Medal]] (1937)<ref name="Debretts">{{cite book |date= 1963 |chapter=Paus, Christopher Lintrup, C.B.E.|title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage |page= 1813 }}</ref>
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