he confessed that he had never seen a BBC Television programme and that what he had seen of American television, he disliked. He served until 1957. In the last decade of his life, Cadogan gradually shed his commitments and devoted more time to his late-blooming interest in art. Honours Cadogan was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1939, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1941, admitted to the Privy Council in 1946 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1951. Family Cadogan married Lady Theodosia Acheson, daughter of Archibald Acheson, 4th Earl of Gosford, in 1912. They had a son and three daughters. He died in July 1968, aged 83. Lady Theodosia Cadogan died in October 1977. References External links Papers of Alexander Cadogan held at Churchill Archives Centre Alexander Cadogan research guide, published by Churchill Archives Centre Photographs and information on a series of scrapbooks kept by Theodosia Cadogan on the life of her and the Cadogan family 1884 births 1968 deaths Permanent Representatives of the United Kingdom to the United Nations BBC Governors Chairmen of the BBC Members of HM Diplomatic Service Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom People educated at Eton College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs Members of the Order of Merit Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Younger sons of earls A Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to China People from Chelsea, London Foreign Office personnel of World War II 20th-century British diplomats