Ernest Amelius Rennie

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Rennie at the handover of the Allenstein voting area (1920)

Sir Ernest Amelius Rennie , KCMG , MVO ( September 12, 1868 - September 25, 1935 ) was a British diplomat.

Rennie attended Eton College and studied at the University of Oxford . In 1868 he began his career in the diplomatic service.

From 1913 Rennie was British ambassador to Peru and Ecuador until he headed the Inter-Allied Commission of the League of Nations in the Olsztyn voting area in 1920 .

After the end of the vote, he was appointed ambassador to Finland (1921–1930).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Whitaker's peerage, baronetage, knightage and companionage , 1917, p. 713
  2. ^ Who's who , Volume 58, A. & C. Black, 1906, p. 1413.
  3. ^ Wilhelm von Gayl: East Prussia under foreign flags: A book of memories of the East Prussian referendum of July 11, 1920 . Königsberg 1940, p. 121
  4. ↑ List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Finland
predecessor Office successor
British ambassador to Peru and Ecuador
1913–1920 		Arthur Cuninghame Grant Duff (1861-1948)
George Jardine Kidston (1873-1954) British ambassador to Finland
1921–1930 		Sir Rowland Arthur Charles Sperling
personal data
SURNAME Rennie, Ernest Amelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1868
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1935