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

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and joined the

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in 1883. He served in

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, and

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, 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 United Kingdom, Germany and Italy imposed a naval blockade against the country from December 1902 until February 1903. Shortly before the actual blockade, Bax-Ironside and other members of his legation were evacuated by a British warship. He was Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile 1907–09, Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland 1909–10, and Minister Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria, 1911–15. While in Bulgaria he was "His Majesty's Special Envoy Extraordinary to attend the ceremonies to be held in commemoration of the coming of age of His Royal Highness Prince Boris,

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, Heir to the Throne of Bulgaria" in 1912. Henry Bax-Ironside was knighted KCMG in 1911.

Family

Bad-Ironside married at St Peter and St Sigfrid's Church in Stockholm on 15 September 1902 Märtha Hedwig Jacquette Gyldenstolpe (1874–1910), daughter of Swedish nobleman and courtier Count August Gustaf Ferson Gyldenstolpe (1839–1919) and his wife Hedvig Fredrike Alice Nieroth (1850–1927). Her brother was the ornithologist

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. After the death of his first wife, in 1913, he married Fanny Agnes (Effie) Jardine, née Willoughby (1857 – c. 1931).Robert Scholes
E. A. Bax-Ironside
The Modernist Journals Project.

References

BAX-IRONSIDE, Sir Henry (George Outram)
''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bax-Ironside, Henry George Outram 1859 births 1929 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Venezuela Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Chile Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Switzerland Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Bulgaria Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George