Arthur Henry Hardinge
Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge GCMG 1910, KCB 1904 (born October 12, 1859 in London , † December 27, 1933 in East Sheen , Greater London) was a British diplomat .
Life
Arthur Henry Hardinge was the son of General Hon. Sir Arthur Edward Hardinger, (1828; † 1892).
From 1886 to 1890, he studied Classical Philology and Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford University. In 1881 he became a fellow at All Souls College . In July 1880 he entered the foreign service under Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury . In 1883 he became a junior agent of the Foreign Office in Madrid, Spain, under Ambassador Robert Morier. When Robert Morier was sent as ambassador to Saint Petersburg, Hardinge followed him as personal aid.
In 1887 he went to the legation in Istanbul under Sir William White. In 1890 he went to the embassy in Bucharest, Romania and to the consulate in Cairo under Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer . In 1891 he accompanied the Tsarevich , Nicholas II. On a trip to British India. From 1894 he had exequartur as consul general in Zanzibar .
As a result of the Congo Conference , East Africa became a British protectorate, the Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEA) was entrusted with the development and Arthur Henry Hardinge with the management of the administration.
From 1895 to 1900 he was the protector of British East Africa .
From 1900 to 1906 he was envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire in Tehran . In The Great Game , he emphasized the advantages for the Persisischer Hof, if it does not bind itself to Russia. During his tenure in 1900, William Knox D'Arcy promised to fund the Anglo-Persian Oil Company's search for mineral oil in Persia. From 1906 to 1911 he was envoy in Brussels . From 1911 to 1913 he was envoy in Lisbon . From 1913 to 1919 he was envoy to Madrid .
In 1920 he was retired .
He survived his two sons Henry Arthur Mina Hardinge (* 1905 - 1925) and George Granville Douglas Hardinge (* 1912 - 1927) and is buried in St. Peter's Cemetery, Fordcombe, Kent, England.
Publications
- Life of Lord Carnarvon, 1925
- A diplomatist in Europe, 1927
- A diplomatist in the East, 1928
Individual evidence
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- ↑ http://www.iranica.com/articles/oil-agreements-in-iran
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| List of colonial heads of Kenya 1895–1900 |
Charles Eliot | |
| James Rennell Rodd | Consul General in Zanzibar 1894–1900 |
Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot |
| Cecil Spring-Rice |
British ambassador to Tehran 1900–1906 |
Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff |
| Constantine Edmund Henry Phipps |
British ambassador to Brussels 1906–1911 |
Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville |
| Francis Hyde Villiers |
British ambassador to Portugal 1911–1913 |
Lancelot Carnegie |
| Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen |
British Ambassador to Madrid 1913–1919 |
Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hardinge, Arthur Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1933 |
| Place of death | East Sheen |