Arthur James Herbert

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Sir Arthur James Herbert (born August 22, 1855 Abergavenny , Monmouthshire ( Wales ), † August 31, 1921 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Herbert joined the foreign service as an attaché on June 2, 1879 . From 1885 to 1887 he worked as a second-class legation secretary in Tehran under Arthur Nicolson . In 1887, when checking export quantities, he found that the cultivation of opium poppies in Persia had largely supplanted the production of wheat and other types of grain. After a stint as legation secretary in Saint Petersburg , he was transferred to Washington, DC in 1888 in the same position . From 1890 to 1892 he was the delegation secretary in Buenos Aires , where he last acted as chargé d'affaires . In the same year, 1892, he married Helen Louise Gammell. Further stations in his career were Brussels (1894/1895) and Bern , from February 10, 1897 to 1900 Stockholm , after which he was transferred to Copenhagen for two years, as previously in the role of legation secretary .

In 1902 Herbert was appointed consul general in Budapest . In Darmstadt in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Karlsruhe in the Duchy of Baden he was chargé d'affaires from 1903 to 1905. After Norway gained its independence from the union with Sweden in 1905, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Christiania on October 27, 1905 . His carriage overturned near the Norwegian capital, seriously injuring himself. On 20 jul. / November 2nd,  1905 greg. he signed the Norway Agreement . In 1910, at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution , he was summoned to Mexico. Herbert retired in 1913 .

Awards

Arthur James Herbert was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1905 . He was thereby raised to the knighthood and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". Three years later he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of this order and thus received the highest level of this award.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ḥevrah ha-Mizraḥit ha-Yiśreʼelit, Asian and African studies, Volume 12, p. 978, p. 315
  2. ^ Council House, 1910, Annual report of the Council of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, Volume 37, Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, Great Britain
predecessor Office successor
Office newly created British ambassador to Norway
1905–1910 		Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay
personal data
SURNAME Herbert, Arthur James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Y Fenni , Monmouthshire
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1921