The son of the painter
Henry John Lintott,
RSA, and Edith Lunn, Lintott was educated at
Edinburgh Academy,
Edinburgh University, and
King’s College, Cambridge. He joined
HM Customs and Excise in 1932, and was with the
Board of Trade from 1935 to 1948. He was Deputy Secretary-General of the
Organisation for European Economic Co-operation from 1948 to 1956, Deputy Under-Secretary of State at the
Commonwealth Relations Office from 1956 to 1963, and
British High Commissioner to Canada from 1963 to 1968. Lintott was appointed CMG in 1948 and promoted to KCMG in 1957. == Family ==