Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston , GCMG , PC (* 17th February 1876 in London , † 25. July 1947 ) was a British diplomat , among others 1921-1928 ambassador in Austria , 1928-1933 envoy to Hungary and between 1933 and 1938 was ambassador to the Soviet Union . In 1926 he inherited the title as the second Viscount Chilston and became a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) .
Life
Aretas Akers-Douglas was the eldest son of Aretas Akers-Douglas , the 1880-1911 Member of Parliament ( House of Commons ) was and 1902-1905 interior minister and after leaving the House in 1911 for the first Viscount Chilston , of Boughton Malherbe in the County of Kent, with the subordinate title Baron Douglas of Baads , of Baads in the County of Midlothian, and thereby became a member of the House of Lords, and his wife Adeline Mary Austen-Smith. He himself attended the renowned Eton College between 1890 and 1895 and subsequently served in the Royal Scots line infantry regiment (The Royal Regiment) until 1898 . In 1898 he entered the diplomatic service as an attaché and in 1900 became third secretary at the consulate general in the Khedivat of Egypt . After further assignments in Madrid , Constantinople and Athens he was first second secretary in 1905 and acting agent and consul at the Consulate General in Tsarist Bulgaria in 1907 . He then served as Chargé d'affaires in the Kingdom of Montenegro between 1911 and 1914 and became First Secretary in 1912, before becoming Chargé d'Affaires at the Legation in the Kingdom of Romania in 1914 .
During the First World War , Akers-Douglas served briefly in the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) and was promoted to captain . In 1915 he was the Foreign Ministry ( Foreign Office ) was added and in 1918 for his services Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). As successor to Francis Lindley , he took over the post of Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister in Austria in 1921 and remained in this post until his replacement by Eric Phipps in 1928. After the death of his father on January 15, 1926, he inherited the title of 2nd Viscount Chilston , of Boughton Malherbe in the County of Kent, and the related subsidiary title Baron Douglas of Baads , of Baads in the County of Midlothian, and became a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) . On January 1, 1927, he was made Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG).
In 1928 Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston, succeeded Colville Barclay as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Hungary and held this office until 1933, when Patrick Ramsay succeeded him there. Most recently he succeeded Esmond Ovey as ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1933 and held this post until he was replaced by William Seeds in 1938. During this time, he was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) on June 3, 1935 raised. He was last on February 2, 1939, member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) appointed.
Aretas Akers-Douglas married Amy Jennings-Bramly on August 6, 1903 in Florence , whose father John Robert Jennings-Bramly was Major in the Royal Horse Artillery . From this marriage two sons emerged, of which the older son of the same name Aretas Akers-Douglas died on February 28, 1940. The younger son Eric Alexander Akers-Douglas inherited the titles of 3rd Viscount Chilston and Baron Douglas of Baads after his death on July 25, 1947.
Web links
- Chilston, Viscount (UK, 1911) at Cracroft's Peerage
- Peerage: Chilston at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
- Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston on thepeerage.com , accessed July 3, 2019.
- A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS (p. 97)
- Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
- Chilston, 2nd Viscount at Who's Who (online version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 630
- ↑ a b Knights and Dames
- ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 727
- ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 809
- ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915–1968
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Aretas Akers-Douglas |
Viscount Chilston 1926-1947 |
Eric Alexander Akers-Douglas |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Akers-Douglas, Aretas, 2nd Viscount Chilston |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chilston, Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British diplomat, member of the House of Lords |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1947 |