Alexander Cadogan

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Sir Alexander Cadogan (1945)

Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan , GCMG , KCB , OM , PC (born November 25, 1884 in London , † July 9, 1968 in London ) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to China between 1935 and 1936 and first from 1946 to 1950 Was the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations . He was then chairman of the BBC Board of Governors between 1952 and 1957 , the board of directors of the public broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation .

Life

Family background, Ambassador to China and Permanent Undersecretary of State

Alexander George Montagu Cadogan was the ninth and youngest child of the politician George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan , who was Lord Seal Keeper between 1886 and 1892 and later Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1895 to 1902 , as well as his first wife, Lady Beatrix Jane Craven, daughter by William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven , and Lady Emily Mary Grimston, daughter of James Grimston, 1st Earl of Verulam . After attending the renowned Eton College, founded in 1440, he himself began an undergraduate degree at Balliol College at the University of Oxford , which he completed in 1908 with a Bachelor of Arts . He then joined in 1908 in the diplomatic service (HM Diplomatic Service) Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign Office ) and found in the following years many different uses of foreign missions and the Foreign Ministry. For his services he was accepted as a Companion in the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1926 .

Alexander Cadogan (1933)

Cadogan was advisor to the Foreign Office on League Affairs between 1930 and 1933 and was named Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for his services in 1932 . As successor to Maurice Ingram , he became Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister to China on September 3, 1933 and then acted as the United Kingdom's first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from June 15, 1935 until he was replaced by Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen on September 23, 1936 in china . During this use he was knighted on January 1, 1934 Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), so that from then on he had the suffix "Sir".

Upon his return, Sir Alexander Cadogan took over the post of Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1936 and held this position until 1938. He then succeeded Robert Gilbert Vansittart as Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1938 and was also Head of the Diplomatic Service (Head of HM Diplomatic Service) until he was replaced by Orme Sargent in 1946 . When, shortly before the coup in Yugoslavia on March 27, 1941, the Yugoslavs signed a pact with the Axis powers in World War II , he noted in his diary that the Yugoslavs had apparently sold their souls to the devil. Because of his merits in this use, he was on January 2, 1939 to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) and on January 1, 1941 also to the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB). On 26 June 1946 he was also a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) appointed.

Permanent Representative to the UN and Chairman of the BBC

In 1946 Sir Alexander Cadogan became the United Kingdom's first permanent representative to the United Nations . He remained in this position until he left the diplomatic service in 1950 and was then replaced by Gladwyn Jebb . During this time he was awarded honorary doctorates in civil law from the University of Toronto in 1947 and Princeton University and McGill University in 1950.

After his retirement he became in 1951 Director of various companies such as the insurer Phoenix Assurance , the Suez Canal Company (Suez Canal Company) and the National Provincial Bank . On January 1, 1951, he was awarded the Order of Merit (OM), which besides the British monarch may only include 24 other living persons. Recently he released in 1952 Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC and was until his replacement by Arthur fforde 1957 Chairman of the Board of public broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation .

From his marriage on August 3, 1912 with Lady Theodosia Louisa Augusta Acheson, daughter of Archibald Brabazon Sparrow Acheson, 4th Earl of Gosford and Lady Louisa Augusta Beatrice Montagu, they had a son and three daughters.

Background literature

  • David Dilks (Editor): The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan 1938–1945 , London 1971.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Cadogan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Earls of Cadogan in Cracroft's Peerage
  2. ↑ Robert George Howe was on 5 April to 23 September, 1936 Charge d'Affaires and Acting Head of the Embassy in China.
  3. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 655
  4. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
  5. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 912
  6. ↑ Cadogan's private secretaries during his tenure as Permanent Under-Secretary of State included diplomats such as John Mansfield Addis and Henry Hopkinson .
  7. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 911
  8. ↑ Quoted from David Stafford: SOE and British Involvement in the Belgrade Coup d'État of March 1941 . In: Slavic Review , published by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies , Vol. 36 (1977), pp. 399-419, here p. 407. (to explain the abbreviation in the title: SOE stands for “Special Operations Executive ".)
  9. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
  10. ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915--1968 in Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  11. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 896
  12. ↑ ORDER OF MERIT in Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Cadogan, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cadogan, Alexander George Montagu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat and administrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1968
Place of death London