Charles Bean Euan-Smith

Charles Bean Euan-Smith

Sir Charles Bean Euan-Smith KCMG ( 1842 - August 30, 1910 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

In 1859 Euan-Smith joined the Madras Army. He later worked in the Indian Political Department, the colonial administration.

From 1870 to 1872 he was a member of the Persian-Indian Border Commission, in 1872 he was a member of Henry Bartle Frere's mission to Zanzibar , with which the Sultan, together with gunboat policy, was induced on June 5, 1873 to sign a treaty on the abolition of the slave trade to sign. In the following years Euan-Smith was used on various posts in the diplomatic service. In 1879 he became British consul in Muscat , the capital of the Sultanate of Oman . After a time as British Consul General in Zanzibar, he was sent to the Moroccan court as envoy extraordinary in 1891. From July to November 1898 he was Consul General in Colombia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charles Bean  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24751, HMSO, London, August 12, 1879, p. 4899 ( PDF , accessed October 17, 2010, English).
3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24970, HMSO, London, December 6, 1887, p. 2342 ( PDF , accessed October 17, 2010, English).
4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25764, HMSO, London, May 29, 1891, p. 6797 ( PDF , accessed October 17, 2010, English).
5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27009, HMSO, London, September 30, 1898, p. 5733 ( PDF , accessed October 17, 2010, English).
6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27031, HMSO, London, December 9, 1898, p. 7971 ( PDF , accessed October 17, 2010, English).

predecessor	Office	successor
William John Dickson	British ambassador to Colombia July to November 1898	George Earle Welby