Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock

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Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock

Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock , Bt , GCB , GCMG , GCVO , KCIE , PC (born September 19, 1849 - † November 5, 1928 ) was a British diplomat and politician.

family

Nicolson was the eldest son of Admiral Sir Frederick Nicolson, 10th Baronet , and his wife Mary Loch.

He married Mary Catherine Rowan-Hamilton († 1951) in 1882 . With her he had three sons and a daughter:

Live and act

Nicolson entered the British diplomatic service in 1870, having previously trained at Rugby School and the University of Oxford . After various activities in the Foreign Office in London - including as private secretary to Lord Granville - until 1874, positions at the British embassies in Berlin (1874–1876) and Beijing (1876–1878) followed, before he went to Athens from 1884 as a British agent . After three years in Tehran (1885-1888), Nicolson was finally appointed to the British Consul General in Budapest (1888-1893). Afterwards he worked briefly at the British Mission in Constantinople (1894) before he was the British representative in Morocco from 1895 to 1904. In 1899, when his father died, he inherited the title of 11th Baronet , of Carnock in the County of Stirling .

In 1904 the Balfour government sent him to Madrid as British ambassador for Spain and then from 1905 to 1910 as British ambassador for Russia to Saint Petersburg .

From 1910 until his death in 1928, Nicolson served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the First and Second Asquith Governments under Secretary of State Sir Edward Gray .

In 1916 Nicolson was promoted to peer baron Carnock , of Carnock in the County of Stirling . After his death, his nobility titles passed to his son Frederick Archibald Nicolson .

Works

  • History of the German Constitution , 1873.

literature

  • Harold Nicolson : The Diplomatic Conspiracy. From Sir Arthur Nicolson's Life, 1849–1928. Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei, Frankfurt am Main 1930.

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predecessor Office successor
Frederick Nicolson Baronet (of Carnock)
1899-1928
Frederick Nicolson
New title created Baron Carnock
1916-1928
Frederick Nicolson