Sir Arthur Henry McMahon (28 November 1862 – 29 December 1949) was a

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officer and diplomat who served as the High Commissioner in

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from 1915 to 1917. He was also an administrator in

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and served twice as

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. McMahon is best known for the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence with Hussein bin Ali,

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, the

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between

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and India, and the

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in response to a memorandum written by seven notable Syrians. After the Sykes-Picot Agreement was published by the

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Russian government in November 1917, McMahon resigned. He also features prominently in ''

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'', T.E. Lawrence's account of the

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against the

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during

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Early life

McMahon was the son of

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Charles Alexander McMahon Lieutenant-General Charles Alexander McMahon FRS FGS (23 March 1830 – 21 February 1904) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, geologist, and administrator in British India. In 1899 he was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London. McMah ...

, FRS, FGS (1830–1904), a

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and Commissioner of both

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and Hisar in

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, India, and who, like his father,

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Alexander McMahon (born 1791,

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, Ireland), had been an officer with the

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. He was educated in England at

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, the recently-founded successor of the

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. When he joined the school, his father had an address in

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. He then proceeded to the

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."McMahon, Arthur Henry, b. Nov. 28, 1862, son of Lieut.-Col. McMahon, 6, Regent's Park, Heavilree, Exeter" in Lionel Sumner Milford, ''Haileybury Register, 1862-1891'' (Haileybury College, 1891), p. 149

Family background

The Oriel McMahons are the

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of ''Mac Mathghamhna'' who had come originally from the medieval Irish kingdom of Oriel in South

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, where they reigned from around 1250 until about 1600. Henry McMahon's own family had settled in the

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area of

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before his great-grandfather, Arthur McMahon, moved to Kilrea, where he was minister of the local

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congregation between 1789 and 1794: a prominent

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, Arthur McMahon was a member of the National Directory of the

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and one of their

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s in

during the

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. He apparently fought at the battles of

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and

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. Following the rebels' overall defeat, he was able to flee to

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, where he served with

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’s

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. It has been reported that he was captured by the British during the

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of 1809 and sent to England, but was later able to return to France where, in June 1815, he eventually died fighting at either

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or Waterloo.

Career

British India

McMahon was commissioned as a

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into the 8th Regiment in 1883. He transferred to the

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in 1885, joining the 1st Sikh Infantry in the

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. In 1887, McMahon joined the Punjab Commission (civil service). He transferred to the

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in 1890, serving in it till 1915. His various positions included North-West Frontier, Zhob and Thal-Chotiali agencies in

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, Dir–

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– Chitral and finally as the Agent to the Governor-General for Balochistan (a position that combined the Chief Commissioner for British Baluchistan and Political Resident for the

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). McMahon spoke

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, Afghani, and Hindustani, and his aptitude for languages led him also to learn

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. In 1911, the Viceroy Lord Hardinge appointed McMahon as the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. He held this position till 1915. During 1913–1914, McMahon was responsible for holding the tripartite conference to negotiate the

Simla Convention The Simla Convention, officially the Convention Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet,

between Tibet, China and Britain, and acting as Britain's plenipoteniary. Though the conference failed to produce a signed convention between all three parties, Tibet and Britain did agree the draft convention, which governed their mutual relations till the end of British rule in India. Tibet and Britain also agreed their mutual border in the northeast India, which bears the name

Middle East

In 1915, McMahon was sent to replace Sir

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, briefly acting for Lord Kitchener, who had become

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in London, in the post of High Commissioner in the

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. When he arrived by train,

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, a member of the

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, described him as "quiet, friendly, agreeable, considerate and cautious", although later in his career Storrs and others were not so charitable. McMahon was made a

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(KStJ). Although a temporary appointment, it became a permanent post, for an experienced political administrator. With the approval of Kitchener and Foreign Secretary

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, McMahon began a long correspondence with

Husayn bin Ali Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...

, the Ottoman-appointed ruler of the Hijaz, to use the Bedouin tribes under his control to support the

Egyptian Expeditionary Force The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) was a British Empire military formation, formed on 10 March 1916 under the command of General Archibald Murray from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt (1914–15), at the beginning of ...

in overthrowing the Ottomans. He promised Husayn an independent area under Arab governance that was to include what was then the

Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem The Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem ( ota, مُتَصَرِّف قدسی مُتَصَرِّفلغ, ; ar, متصرفية القدس الشريف, ), also known as the Sanjak of Jerusalem, was an Ottoman district with special administrative status e ...

(later

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), in exchange for Arab support in Britain's conflict against the

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in what came to be known as the

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against the Ottomans. Their correspondence is known to historians from the

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. Sir Gilbert Clayton,

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, Storrs and others of the intelligence community approved of McMahon's pro-Arabist policy from 1916 onwards. McMahon sat on the plan to use the Sharif to support British for six months. But it was

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who persuaded McMahon that the Arabs were ready, able and willing for Cairo to support Husayn in an effort to overthrow the Ottomans and establish a pan-Arab state made up of Ottoman Arab lands in the Middle East. Storrs thought the diplomacy was "in every way exaggerated." He was appointed a

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(GCMG) in 1916 upon his retirement from the

. By May 1916, Turkish troops had arrived in Mecca, and McMahon received a telegram from Abdullah ibn Husayn, Sharif Husayn's son, that the Movement was ready. McMahon despatched the oriental secretary, Storrs, to London with a team of intelligence experts. The British decision to land an invasion force in the Dardanelles, instead of Alexandretta, and to promise the French Syria under the Sykes-Picot Agreement, irritated McMahon. On 23 November 1917, following the

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, the

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released copies the Sykes–Picot Agreement and other secret treaties, publishing full texts in ''

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'' and ''

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''. ''

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'' then printed the texts on 26 November 1917. This caused great embarrassment to the Allies and growing distrust between them and the Arabs, and McMahon resigned his post in protest.

Honours in retirement

In 1920, McMahon was awarded the Order of El Nahda, 1st Class, by Husayn, the new

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. In 1925, he was promoted to a

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(KStJ).

Personal life

On 19 October 1886, at Bombay, McMahon married Mary E. Bland, a daughter of F. C. Bland of Derriquin Castle,

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. Their daughter Jessica was born in 1887. In 1909, at

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, she married Henry A. Hetherington, of Berechurch Hall,

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. McMahon and his wife retired to England. On 29 December 1949, McMahon died at the Cadogan Hotel in

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, where he had been living, leaving an estate valued at £26,918. Probate was granted to Jessica Merriell Hetherington and Lord Courtauld-Thomson. McMahon was buried in the Golders Green Cemetery. He was survived by his wife.Sir Arthur Henry McMahon
in ''UK and Ireland Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current'', ancestry.co.uk, accessed 3 September 2022

Honours and arms

Taxa named in his honor

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of Asian viper, '' Eristicophis macmahoni'', is named in honor of Henry McMahon. Another species of snake, *''Eirenis mcmahoni'', also named in his honor, is considered a synonym of '' Eirenis persicus''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 2967 pp. . ("McMahon", p. 173). *The Pakistani fish '' Labeo macmahoni'' is potentially named in his honor.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McMahon, Henry 1862 births 1949 deaths Administrators in British India British Indian Army officers Companions of the Order of the Star of India Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Egypt Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights of Justice of the Order of St John Indian Staff Corps officers People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College People from Shimla British people of Irish descent