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3 unusual facts about British consul


Jehanne Wake

Emily, the only daughter to stay in the United States, married John MacTavish, a Scots-Canadian fur trade entrepreneur and British Consul to Baltimore, Maryland.

Normanton Incident

James Troup, British Consul approved the following official statement on November 5.

The Dream of the Celt

It is within this larger context that the complex and ultimately tragic story of British consul Roger Casement unfolds.


Baron Greville

His illegitimate son Reginald Maugham was a writer of Africa and British Consul-General in Senegal.


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Acajutla

During the 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising, two destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy anchored off the shore of Acajutla at the request of the British Consul in El Salvador who feared for the safety of British nationals and assets.

Arthur Montagu Brookfield

In 1910 he became British Consul at Savannah, Georgia, which was a shipping point for the cotton trade between the U.S. and Great Britain.

Cementerio Británico

In May, 1827 the British consul Woodbine Parish started negotiations with the government to obtain permission for the British community to build a new temple and another plot for the cemetery, since the existing cemetery (at Socorro) was full.

Clairmont Percival Skrine

Sir Clairmont Percival Skrine (1888-1974) was a British civil servant and administrator who served as the British consul-general in Kashgar from 1922 to 1924, Under-Secretary of State for India and agent for the Madras States from 1936 to 1939.

Elijah Akpan Okon

Prior to his birth, his father Chief Nsentip Ekown had signed a treaty with the British Consul – Sir Robert Brooks which established Uyo as a British Colonial Administrative station.

Former general Hospital of Douala

He supplanted The late consul, nickname given to the British Consul Hewett, still retained in his official duties in Fernando Poo (now Malabo), who got to Cameroon Town too late to negotiate a British establishment in this city.

Geoffrey Rowell

In January 2007, Rowell courted controversy by suspending the chaplain of Istanbul, Ian Sherwood, and the entire chaplaincy council, including Victoria Short, widow of Roger Short, the British Consul General killed in the 2003 bomb attack.

Hamoud bin Mohammed of Zanzibar

Hamoud became sultan with the support of the British consul, Sir Basil Cave, upon the death of Hamad bin Thuwaini.

Henry William Beechey

Some time before 1816 he had become secretary to Henry Salt, the British consul-general in Egypt, and at the latter's request accompanied Belzoni in that and the following year beyond the second cataract, for the purpose of studying and making designs of the fine monuments existing at Thebes.

James Charles Harris

Sir James Charles Harris, KCVO, was British Consul at Nice from 1884 until 1901.

John Twiggs Myers

Myers was wounded in the leg by a spear; his attack was claimed by the British Consul, Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald, as "one of the most successful operations of the siege, as it rendered our position on the wall, which had been precarious, comparatively strong."

Lost Horizon

In the aeroplane of the Maharajah of Chandrapore are Conway, the British consul, age 37; Mallinson, his young vice-consul; an American, Barnard; and a British missionary, Miss Brinklow.

Maesteg

After his Llynfi venture, John Bowring became British Consul in Canton, China, and was Governor of Hong Kong 1854-59.

Philip Vanbrugh

Philip Vanbrugh married Mary Griffith in Arnold, Nottinghamshire on 24 July 1715 and they had one known child, Philippia, born 1716, la belle consulesse, who married Burrington Goldsworthy of Down House, Dorset, British consul at Leghorn, Italy and later at Cadiz.

Second Opium War

Following the election and an increased majority for Palmerston, the voices within the Whig faction who were in support of China were hushed, and the new parliament decided to seek redress from China based on the report about the Arrow Incident submitted by Harry Parkes, British Consul to Guangzhou.

Servando Bayo

Following orders of the British consul in Buenos Aires, a British ship was dispatched from Montevideo up the Paraná River to threaten the use of force against this harm to the kingdom's commercial interests.

Sharpe's Devil

George Blair; surly Liverpool merchant acting as British Consul in the port of Valdivia who welcomes Sharpe and Harper to Chile.

Siege of Kut

These Indian troops were involved in the capture of the frontier city of Karman and the detention of the British consul there, and they also successfully harassed Sir Percy Sykes' Persian campaign against the Baluchi and Persian tribal chiefs who were aided by the Germans.

Sufi Amba Prasad

These Indian troops were involved in the capture of the frontier city of Karman and the detention of the British consul there, and also successfully harassed Percy Sykes' Persian campaign against the Baluchi and Persian tribal chiefs who were aided by the Germans.

Thomas McKenny Hughes

From 1860 to 1861, Hughes held the post of secretary to the British consul in Rome, Charles Newton and later as acting Consul.

Walter Churchill

His father was William Algernon Churchill (1865–1947) a British Consul who served in Mozambique, Amsterdam, Pará, in Brazil, Stockholm, Milan, and Algiers.

William Cayley

He was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1807, the son of a British consul, and studied in England.