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Sir Brooke Boothby, 10th Baronet
Sir Brooke Boothby, 10th Baronet (13 November 1856 – 22 January 1913) was a British baronet and diplomat. Born at Welwyn Rectory in Hertfordshire, he was the son of Sir Brooke Boothby, 9th Baronet.Fox-Davies (1895), p. 109 His mother was Martha Serena Boothby, the eldest daughter of Charles, in turn younger son of Sir William Bootby, 7th Baronet. He succeeded his father as baronet in 1865, aged nine.Cokayne (1903), p. 84 Boothby was educated at Harrow School and joined the Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, Diplomatic Service in 1881. A year later he was advanced to an attaché and in 1884 was gazetted a third secretary. Four years thereafter he was promoted to second secretary. Boothby was sent as first secretary to Rio de Janeiro in 1898 and was transferred to Tokyo as Secretary of Legion in 1901. After a year he appointed to the same position at the embassy in Brussels in August 1902, and in 1905 became counsellor of embassy in Vienna. Boothby was appointed Envoy Extraordinar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For government statistical purposes, it forms part of the East of England region. Hertfordshire covers . It derives its name – via the name of the county town of Hertford – from a hart (stag) and a ford, as represented on the county's coat of arms and on the flag. Hertfordshire County Council is based in Hertford, once the main market town and the current county town. The largest settlement is Watford. Since 1903 Letchworth has served as the prototype garden city; Stevenage became the first town to expand under post-war Britain's New Towns Act of 1946. In 2013 Hertfordshire had a population of about 1,140,700, with Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Watford and St Albans (the county's only ''city'') each having between 50,000 and 100,000 r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
