Sir Charles William Orde, KCMG (25 October 1884 – 7 June 1980) was a British diplomat. The eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Orde, DL, of Nunnykirk, Morpeth, Northumberland, Orde was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

and

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

, where he was an Exhibitioner, graduating BA in 1907. He entered the Foreign Office in 1909 as a clerk, and was promoted to the rank of Counsellor in 1929. In the 1930s, he was with the League of Nations Department of the Foreign Office, and was secretary to the Arms Traffic Convention of 1925. He was British Minister to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 1938 to 1940 and British Ambassador to Chile from 1940 to 1945. Orde married in 1914, Frances Fortune (died 1949), only daughter of James Davidson, of Dunedin, New Zealand; they had two sons and two daughters. Their third child was Martin Orde, OBE, of the Colonial Service and the Scottish Office.

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* https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-158143 1884 births 1980 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Place of birth missing Place of death missing Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Chile {{UK-diplomat-stub