Alvary Gascoigne

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Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Gascoigne , GBE , KCMG (born August 6, 1893 , † January 18, 1970 ) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1951 and 1953 .

Life

Alvary Gascoigne had owned the Lotherton Hall country house in West Yorkshire since his father's death in 1937 and lived there until his death in 1970

Alvary Douglas Frederick Gascoigne, son of Colonel Frederick Richard Thomas Trench-Gascoigne and his wife Laura Gwendolen Douglas Galton, entered military service after school and took on World War I first as Second Lieutenant of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and from 1915 as Lieutenant the field artillery division of the Coldstream Guards . In 1921 he entered the diplomatic service and was then uses in numerous missions abroad as well as at the State Department ( Foreign Office ) . In 1925 he was first second secretary and in 1933 first secretary in the Foreign Ministry. In 1939 he took over the post of Consul General in Tangier and worked there until 1944. During this time he was named Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1920 for his services .

After the end of the Second World War , Gascoigne was initially a brief political representative in Hungary between 1945 and 1946 and then from 1946 until his replacement by Esler Dening in 1951 as a political representative in Japan . On January 1, 1948 he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), so that from then on he had the suffix "Sir". He last replaced David Victor Kelly as ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1951 and remained in this post until he retired in 1953, whereupon William Hayter succeeded him there. On January 1, 1953, he was also raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE).

Alvary Gascoigne was married twice. His first marriage, which he entered into and divorced in 1916, was Sylvia Wilder, daughter of Brigadier General of the US Army Wilber Elliott Wilder , and had a son and a daughter. The second marriage in 1935 with Lorna Priscilla Leatham remained childless. Since his father's death in 1937, he had owned the Lotherton Hall country house in West Yorkshire .

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  1. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 780
  2. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 727
  3. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 755
  4. ↑ Knights and Dames
  5. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 809
  6. ↑ Knights and Dames
personal data
SURNAME Gascoigne, Alvary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gascoigne, Alvary Douglas Frederick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1893
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1970