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Mansfeldt Findlay
Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay (7 April 1861 – 31 December 1932) was a British diplomat who had the difficult task of envoy to Norway during World War I. Career Findlay was educated at Harrow School and joined the Diplomatic Service as an Attaché in 1885. He served at Stockholm, Constantinople, Vienna, Buenos Aires and Belgrade. He was Minister Resident at Dresden and Coburg 1907–09, and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Sofia 1909–11 and at Christiania 1911–23, including the important period of World War I. :Christiania, which up till 1914 was an extremely pleasant post for a Minister who happened to be fond of fishing, became, on the outbreak of the War, one of intense and arduous difficulty. The problem that increasingly dominated Findlay's work was the double problem of the blockade of Germany and the passage of goods in transit to Russia. The normal difficulties of exercising control over the imports into neutral countries so as to ensure th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrow School
(The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of England , president = , head_label = Head Master , head = Alastair Land , r_head_label = , r_head = , chair_label = Chairman of the Governors , chair = J P Batting , founder = John Lyon of Preston , specialist = , address = 5 High Street, Harrow on the Hill , city = London Borough of Harrow , county = London , country = England , postcode = HA1 3HP , local_authority = , urn = 102245 , ofsted = , staff = ~200 (full-time) , e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Companion Of The Order Of St Michael And St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George IV, George IV, Prince of Wales, while he was acting as prince regent for his father, George III, King George III. It is named in honour of two military saints, Michael (archangel), Michael and Saint George, George. The Order of St Michael and St George was originally awarded to those holding commands or high position in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean territories acquired in the Napoleonic Wars, and was subsequently extended to holders of similar office or position in other territories of the British Empire. It is at present awarded to men and women who hold high office or who render extraordinary or important non-military service to the United Kingdom in a foreign country, and can also be conferred for important or loyal service in relation to foreign and Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth affairs. Description The Order includes three class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Educated At Harrow School
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 Deaths
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1861 Births
Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry. Events January–March * January 1 ** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City. ** The first steam-powered carousel is recorded, in Bolton, England. * January 2 – Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies, and is succeeded by Wilhelm I. * January 3 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the Union. * January 9 – American Civil War: Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union. * January 10 – American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union. * January 11 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the Union. * January 12 – American Civil War: Major Robert Anderson sends dispatches to Washington. * January 19 – American Civil War: Georgia secedes from the Union. * January 21 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate. * January 26 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Oswald Lindley
Sir Francis Oswald Lindley (12 June 1872 – 17 August 1950) was a British diplomat who was HM Consul-General in Russia in 1919, British High Commissioner in Vienna 1919–1920, Ambassador to Austria 1920–1921, Ambassador to Greece 1922–1923, Minister in Oslo 1923–1929, Ambassador to Portugal 1929–1931, and finally Ambassador to Japan 1931–1934. Lindley was described as "a rather tough old character in some respects and very outspoken in his likes and dislikes." Early life Lindley was born on 12 June 1872 at The Lodge, East Carleton, Norwich in the county of Norfolk. He was the fourth son of nine children born to Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, an English judge who served as Master of the Rolls and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (and namesake of Mount Lindley in Antarctica), and Sarah Katharine Teale, daughter of Edward John Teale of Leeds. His paternal grandparents were John Lindley, a botanist and orchidologist, and Sarah ( née Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Diplomats Of The United Kingdom To Norway
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Norway is the United Kingdom's foremost Diplomat, diplomatic representative in Norway, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Norway. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway''. Norway and the United Kingdom have exchanged diplomats since Norway became independent, when Sir Arthur Herbert was appointed British Minister to Norway on 27 October 1905. England, and later the United Kingdom, has had a diplomatic and/or consular representation in Norway at least since the 17th century. List of heads of mission Ministers to Norway *1905–1910: Arthur James Herbert (diplomat), Sir Arthur Herbert, G.C.V.O. *1911–1923: Mansfeldt Findlay, Sir Mansfeldt Findlay, G.B.E., K.C.M.G. *1923–1929: Francis Oswald Lindley, Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Lindley, G.C.M.G., C.B., C.B.E. *1929–1934: Charles Wingfield, Sir Charles Wingfield, K.C.M.G. *1934–1942: Cecil Dormer, Sir Cecil Dormer, K.C.M.G. Ambassador to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur James Herbert (diplomat)
Sir Arthur James Herbert, (22 August 1855 – 31 August 1921) was a British diplomat who served as the first British envoy to Norway. Early life He was the second son of Hon. Augusta Charlotte Elizabeth ( Hall) Herbert and John Arthur Edward Herbert, the High Sheriff of Monmouthshire. Among his siblings were Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, Florence Herbert (wife of Joseph Monteith), and Lt.-Col. Edward Bleiddian Herbert of the 17th Lancers (who married Hon. Mary Dalberg-Acton, daughter of John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton). His paternal grandparents were John Jones of Llanarth Court and the former Lady Harriet Plunkett (a daughter of Arthur Plunkett, 8th Earl of Fingall). His mother was the only child of Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover and the former Augusta Waddington (sister of Frances Bunsen, wife of the Prussian diplomat Baron Bunsen). Herbert was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1879. Career In the early years of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bax-Ironside
Sir Henry George Outram Bax-Ironside, (15 November 1859 – 16 April 1929) was a British diplomat, ambassador to Venezuela, Chile, Switzerland and Bulgaria. Career Henry George Outram Bax was the only son of John Henry Bax, of Houghton-le-Spring, who had married Sarah Elizabeth Hughes, and in 1866 took the surname Bax-Ironside by royal warrant, when his son became Henry Bax-Ironside. He was educated at Eton College and Exeter College, Oxford and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1883. He served in Copenhagen, Teheran, Vienna, Cairo, and Washington, and was briefly in charge of the Central American Legation in 1897 before being appointed Secretary of the Legation at Pekin in the same year. Bax-Ironside was First Secretary of the Legation at Stockholm from 1900 until late 1902, when he was appointed Minister Resident and Consul-General at Carácas, serving as such until 1907. He arrived in Venezuela in the months leading up to the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903, when the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To Bulgaria
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bulgaria is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Bulgaria, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Sofia. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of the Bulgarians *1903–1908: Sir George Buchanan *1909–1911: Mansfeldt Findlay *1911–1915: Sir Henry Bax-Ironside *1915–1920: ''No ambassador due to First World War'' *1920–1921: Sir Arthur Peel *1921–1928: Sir William Erskine *1928–1929: Rowland Sperling *1929–1933: Sydney Waterlow *1933–1936: Charles Bentinck *1936–1938: Maurice Peterson *1938–1941: George Rendel *1941–1946: ''No ambassador due to Second World War'' Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Sofia *1947–1949: John Sterndale Bennett *1949–1951: Paul Mason *1951–1954: John Carvell *1954–1956: Geoffrey Furlonge *1956–1958: Richard Speaight *1958&ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Buchanan (diplomat)
Sir George William Buchanan, (25 November 1854 – 20 December 1924) was a British diplomat. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, he was the youngest son of the diplomat Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet and Frances, daughter of the Very Rev Edward Mellish by Elizabeth Leigh. Diplomatic career Buchanan entered diplomatic service in 1876 and served as Second Secretary in Tokyo, Vienna and Bern and as Secretary in Rome. By 1899, he was serving on the Venezuelan Boundary Commission and later that year was appointed chargé d'affaires at Darmstadt and Karlsruhe. In late 1901, he moved to Berlin, where he was appointed First Secretary at the British embassy. From 1903 to 1908, he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria, and in 1909, he was appointed as Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Invested with the Knight's Grand Cross of Royal Victorian Order in 1909, he was next sworn to the Privy Council. In 1910, Buchanan was appointed as the British Ambassador t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Grant Duff
Sir Arthur Cuninghame Grant Duff, (23 May 1861 – 11 April 1948) was a British diplomat who was Minister to several countries. Career Arthur Cuninghame Grant Duff was the eldest son of M.E. Grant Duff (later Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff). He was educated at Clifton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He entered HM Diplomatic Service in 1865 and was posted as attaché to the embassy in Madrid. After serving in Vienna, Stockholm and Peking he was recalled to London in 1897 and spent three years working at the Foreign Office. He then began a succession of short appointments in Caracas, as Second Secretary at Berne, Secretary of Legation in Mexico from September 1902, Caracas again, Mexico again, Stockholm again, and Brussels. In some of those postings he was Chargé d'affaires in the absence of the minister or ambassador. In 1906 he was appointed chargé d'affaires at Darmstadt and Karlsruhe (then the capitals of the Grand Duchies of Hesse and Baden respectively), but after only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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