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Edwin Corbett
Edwin Corbett (4 December 1819 – 22 February 1888) was a British diplomat who was envoy to several countries. Career Edwin Corbett graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1843, joined the Diplomatic Service in 1847 and was attaché at Paris, Washington, D.C., Madrid and Copenhagen. He was Secretary of Legation at Florence in 1858, at Stockholm in 1860, at Frankfurt in 1862, and at Munich in 1865. In 1866 he was promoted to be ''chargé d'affaires'' and Consul-General to the Central American Republics (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras and Salvador), based in Guatemala City, and in 1873 he was promoted to Minister Resident and Consul-General for the same countries. He was Minister Resident to Switzerland 1874–78 and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece 1878–81, to Brazil 1881–84 and to Sweden and Norway 1884–1888. Family Edwin Corbett married Emily Isabella Dutton, daughter of James Dutton, 3rd Baron Sherborne James Henry Legge Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or University of Oxford, Oxford. Trinity has some of the most distinctive architecture in Cambridge with its Trinity Great Court, Great Court said to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe. Academically, Trinity performs exceptionally as measured by the Tompkins Table (the annual unofficial league table of Cambridge colleges), coming top from 2011 to 2017. Trinity was the top-performing college for the 2020-21 undergraduate exams, obtaining the highest percentage of good honours. Members of Trinity have been awarded 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 121 received by members of Cambridge University (the highest of any college at either Oxford or Cambridge). Members of the college have received four Fields Medals, one Turing Award and one Abel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1819 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The Panic of 1819, the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States, begins. * January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia. * January 29 – Sir Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore. * February 2 – ''Dartmouth College v. Woodward'': The Supreme Court of the United States under John Marshall rules in favor of Dartmouth College, allowing Dartmouth to keep its charter and remain a private institution. * February 6 – A formal treaty, between Hussein Shah of Johor and the British Sir Stamford Raffles, establishes a trading settlement in Singapore. * February 15 – The United States House of Representatives agrees to the Tallmadge Amendment, barring slaves from the new state of Missouri (the opening vote in a controversy that leads to the Missouri Compromise). * February 19 – Captain William Smith of British merchant brig ''Williams'' sights Williams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Richard Plunkett
Sir Francis Richard Plunkett (3 February 1835 – 28 February 1907) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat. Early life Plunkett was born at Corbalton Hall in County Meath, Ireland. He was the youngest son of Arthur Plunkett, 9th Earl of Fingall and Louisa Emilia Corbally, daughter of Elias Corbally of Corbalton. He was educated at St Mary's College, Oscott. Family He married Mary Tevis Morgan, daughter of Charles Wain Morgan of Philadelphia and his wife Heloise Tevis, in 1870. She died in 1924. They had two daughters, Norah and Helen. Norah married the Swedish diplomat Count August Gyldenstolpe, Swedish Envoy to France 1905-1918. Helen never married. Career Plunkett entered the diplomatic service in 1855. In 1873, he was nominated as Secretary of Legation in Tokyo under Sir Harry Parkes. He left Tokyo in 1876 and served as Diplomatic Secretary in St Petersburg, Constantinople and Paris before being appointed Parkes's successor in Japan. He was noted for kindness and affability, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Guion MacDonell
Sir Hugh Guion MacDonell (5 March 1831, Florence, Italy – 25 January 1904, London) was a British diplomat who was envoy to Brazil, Denmark and Portugal. Background MacDonell was born in Florence on 5 March 1831, the second son of the marriage of Hugh MacDonell of Aberchalder (Scottish Clan MacDonell of Glengarry) and Ida Louise Ulrich. He succeeded his brother Sir Alexander Frederick MacDonell in the representation of the family in the Glengarry Council in Canada. His eldest sister, married to the Alexandre Jean Aguado y Moreno, II Marqués de las Marismas del Guadalquivir, was Dame du Palais to the Empress Eugenie. Another sister, Ida MacDonell, married Don Augusto Conte y Lerdo de Tejada, Spanish Diplomant and Minister Plenipoteniary at Copenhagen. Life and career MacDonell attended Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade on 22 December 1848, He served in British Kaffraria 1849–52, but retired from the army on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To Brazil
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Brazil is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Brazil and the head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Brazil. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil''. Besides the embassy and consulate-general in Brasilia, the UK government is represented by consulates-general in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife, and Belo Horizonte. List of heads of mission Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil * 1826: Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet, consul general and '' chargé'' * 1826–1828: Sir Robert GordonJ. Haydn, ''Book of Dignities'' (1851), 87. * 1828–1832: John, Lord Ponsonby * 1828: Percy, Viscount Strangford, special mission * 1832–1835: Stephen Henry Fox * 1835–1838: Hamilton Charles James Hamilton * 1838–1847: William Gore Ouseley, ''chargé'' * 1842: Henry Ellis, extraordinary and special mission * 1847–1850: The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Ford
Sir Francis Clare Ford (4 June 1828 – 31 January 1899) was an English diplomat from London. Ford was born at was born at 32 Upper Brook Street, London, and was the son of writer Richard Ford and his wife, Harriet. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 4th Light Dragoons. However, he left the army in 1851, entered the diplomatic service, and became Secretary of Legation at Washington, D.C., where he was acting chargé d'affaires in 1867–1868. In 1871 he was appointed Secretary of Embassy at St Petersburg and in 1872 was transferred to Vienna. He represented the British government in 1875–77 at Halifax before the Halifax Fisheries Commission, by decision of which $5,500,000 was awarded to Great Britain for superior advantages obtained by the United States in the Washington fisheries treaty of 1871. In 1878–1879 he was Minister to the Argentine Republic and during a portion of the time to Uruguay also. Ford was afterward appointed to similar posts at Rio de J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To Greece
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Greece is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Greece, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Greece. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic. The modern Greek state (then the Kingdom of Greece) was established in 1832 at the London Conference of 1832 and internationally recognised in the same year by the Treaty of Constantinople, in which Greece secured full independence from the Ottoman Empire. Besides the embassy in Athens, the UK government is represented by vice-consulates on the islands of Corfu, Crete and Rhodes, and by an honorary vice consulate on Zakynthos. Heads of Mission Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Greece *1833–1835: Edward DawkinsHaydn, Joseph, ''The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire'' (1851) *1835–1849: Sir Edmund Lyons, Bt *1849–1862: Sir Thomas Wyse Envoy Extraordinary and Minist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stuart (1824–1896)
The Hon. Sir William Stuart, (3 March 1824 – 1 April 1896) was a British diplomat who served as Minister to Argentina, Greece and The Netherlands. Early life William Stuart was the third son of General Robert Walter Stuart, 11th Lord Blantyre and the former Fanny Mary Rodney, a daughter of Capt. Hon. John Rodney (son of Admiral George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney). His older brother was Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre who married Evelyn, the second daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Career He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1845 as unpaid attaché in Paris, and continued unpaid for six years until 1851.Minutes of evidence taken before the Select Committ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Horace Rumbold, 8th Baronet
Sir Horace Rumbold, 8th Baronet, (2 July 1829 – 3 November 1913) was a British diplomat who was minister or ambassador to several countries. He succeeded his brother, Charles, as Baronet in 1877. Career He was educated privately in Paris and (no examinations being then required) was introduced into the diplomatic service by Lord Palmerston in 1849. He was posted in the same year as attaché to Turin (then the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont) and subsequently served at Paris, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vienna and Ragusa. In December 1858 he was appointed secretary of the legation in China and went there in March 1859. The minister, Frederick Bruce, sent him back to England in January 1860 to report to the British government the active resistance which was offered to the progress of the British mission to the Chinese capital. This report led to the Anglo-French expedition to Peking (Beijing) in that year (in the second phase of the Second Opium War). Rumbold then hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To Switzerland
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Switzerland is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Swiss Confederation, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Switzerland. The formal title of the post is ''His ritannicMajesty's Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation'' but it is usually called, even officially, simply ''His ritannicMajesty's Ambassador to Switzerland''. The British Ambassador to Switzerland is also non-resident Ambassador to the Principality of Liechtenstein. List of heads of mission Envoy Extraordinary *1689–1692: Thomas CoxeD. B. Horn, ''British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789'' (Camden 3rd Ser. XLVI, 1932). *1689–1702: Philibert de Hervart, baron van Hüningen (to the Republic of Geneva only 1689–1692) *1702–1705: William Aglionby ''extraordinary envoy'' *1705–1714: Abraham Stanyan (also to the Grisons 1707–1714) *1710 and 1715–1717: James Dayrolle ''Resident'' at Geneva *1716–1722: Francis Manning (also ''Sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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