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George Dixon Grahame
Sir George Dixon Grahame (28 April 1873 – 9 July 1940) was a British diplomat. Life Grahame was the only son of Richard Grahame of Alderley Edge, and was educated at Charterhouse, in Hodgsonite House, between summer 1887 and autumn 1888. He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1896, was attaché to the Paris Embassy in 1897, promoted Second Secretary in September 1902, appointed Chargé d'Affaires at Berlin the same year, then at Buenos Aires in 1903 and at Paris in 1905. He became Minister Plenipotentiary in 1918, participating in the peace negotiations and signed the Treaty of Sèvres on behalf of the United Kingdom and New Zealand. In 1925 he became British Delegate to the League of Nations. He was Ambassador at Brussels in 1920 and at Madrid from 1928 to 1935. Grahame was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG), and of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO), a Privy Counsellor from 1920, and a member of the Grand Cross, Order of Leopold. He ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
