Andrew Ryan

Sir Andrew Ryan KBE , CMO 1916 (born November 5, 1876 , † December 31, 1949 in Albania ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Andrew Ryan was the son of Edward Ryan of Ronayn's Court, Douglas, Cork. Andrew Ryan married Ruth Marguerite, their sons were Columba Ryan (born January 13, 1916 - August 4, 2009) and the cartoonist John Ryan (* March 4, 1921 - July 22, 2009).

Andrew Ryan joined the foreign service on April 12, 1897 and was posted to the Levant on April 20, 1897 as a student interpreter .

Andrew Ryan was consul general in Rabat from 1924 until 1924 . Andrew Ryan had knowledge of Turkish law and was a participant in the Lausanne conference .

In 1927, Great Britain gave in the Agreement of Jeddah , the area along the west coast of Arabia conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the First World War , called the "British Protectorate of Arabia", to Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud and guaranteed the independence of Arabia. In May 1930, Andrew Ryan presented his letter of accreditation to Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud in the Blue Palace in the presence of Hafiz Wahba and Fouad Bey Hamza .

In April 1934, Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud published a green book in which he presented his legal opinion on a border conflict with Imam Yahya Hamid Uddin. This green book was translated by Mr AS Calvert and commented on by Ryan. In 1935 Ryan traveled to Riyadh with Gerald De Gaury .

Andrew Ryan was British Ambassador to Albania from 1936 to 1939 . After the occupation of Albania by Italian troops in April 1939, he remained as consul in Tirana and was retired in 1940. He was the British Foreign Office's liaison with Ahmet Zogu , who found asylum in the United Kingdom during World War II . Ryan's memoir, The Last of the Dragomans , is about politics and diplomacy at the court of Ahmet Zogu in Albania in the 1930s .

Publications

• Memorandum on Slavery in Saudi Arabia, 1934.
• The Last of the Dragomans, London 1951.

predecessor	Office	successor
William Bond Chargé d' Affaires	British ambassador to Saudi Arabia 1930–1936	Reader Bullard
	British Consul General in Durrës 1936–1939	Laurence Grafftey-Smith

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Great Britain. Foreign Office, The Foreign office list and diplomatic and consular year book, Harrison., 1928.
2. ↑ Clive Leatherdale: Britain and Saudi Arabia, 1925-1939: The Imperial Oasis . Routledge, 1983, ISBN 0-7146-3220-1 , pp. 86 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ Gillian Grant: Historical Photographs of the Middle East: From the Middle East Center, St. Antony's College, Oxford (PDF) idc.nl. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
4. ^ Saudi Green Book 1934, The . archiveeditions.co.uk. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
5. ↑ Travels to Arabia during the Reign of King 'Abd Al-'Aziz . darah.org.sa. Archived from the original on June 6, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 6, 2011. 
6. ^ Robert Elsie, Historical Dictionary of Albania , p. 393.