Ernest Wilton
Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton , KCMG (born February 6, 1870 in Singapore , † December 28, 1952 in Ashington ) was a British diplomat and from 1927 to 1932 President of the Government Commission of the League of Nations Mandate Saar .
His parents were both naturalized British, the father a native Dane and the mother a native Dutch. In 1890 he joined the British diplomatic service for China and remained in it for the next 30 years. For his services in the context of the British missions to Tibet and the related negotiations with China, he was accepted into the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1904 with the rank of Companion . Employed as consul general in various Chinese cities during the First World War , he was deployed in Europe after 1919. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Allied Arbitration Commission for the Polish-Czechoslovak border war around the border town of Teschen . From 1920 he was the British envoy to Lithuania and special envoy to Estonia and Latvia . He was then promoted to the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1923. From 1923 to 1926 he was a member of an international commission on the Chinese salt trade before he was appointed President of the Saar Government Commission in 1927. In 1932 he retired from this position for health reasons.
Web links
- Dix Noonan Webb: Wilson's Biography , Visited July 16, 2010.
Victor Rault (1920–1926) | George W. Stephens, Jr. (1926-1927) | Ernest Wilton (1927-1932) | Geoffrey Knox (1932-1935)
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| SURNAME | Wilton, Ernest |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilton, Ernest Colville Collins (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British diplomat, President of the Saar Government Commission (1923–1926) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Singapore |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1952 |
| Place of death | Ashington |