Esmond Ovey

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Esmond Ovey

Sir Esmond Ovey GCMG , MVO (born July 23, 1879 in Oxfordshire , † May 30, 1963 ) was a British ambassador .

Life

Esmond Ovey was born the youngest son of a noble family and studied at Eton College . In 1900 Ovey traveled to Moscow , the Caucasus and the Crimea . In 1902 he entered the foreign service and was posted to Tangier as an attaché ; in 1904 he was accredited as second class embassy secretary in Stockholm, in 1906 in Paris and in 1908 in Washington, DC . In Washington he married Blanche Bliss Emery. In 1912 Ovey was accredited in Sofia . When Ovey was accredited in Constantinople from 1913, his wife fell ill and was unable to leave when the Ottoman Empire entered the war with the British legation. The couple received asylum in the US embassy , against which the ambassador of the German Reich Hans von Wangenheim protested. In 1920 Ovey was accredited by Ahmad Shah Kajar in Tehran . From 1921 to 1923 Esmond Ovey was the first embassy secretary in Kristiania , in early 1925 in Rome and in 1929 he became the first British ambassador to the Soviet Union .

Álvaro Obregón had broken diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United Kingdom in 1920 . At a banquet by Maxim Maximowitsch Litvinow , he recognized the cutlery of the British embassy at the Tsar by the engraving Honi soit qui mal y pense .

During his tenure in Brussels , he was also accredited with the Émile Reuter government in Luxembourg . Eventually Ovey was sent to Buenos Aires as an ambassador . Ovey characterized the Argentine Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú as a man with definitely pro-totalarian inclinations. Esmond Ovey was retired in 1941 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New York Times , May 06, 1909, MISS EMORY WEDS ENGLISH DIPLOMAT; Daughter of Rear Admiral Becomes Bride of Esmond Ovey of Washington Embassy , Scan (pdf): Miss Emory weds English Diplomat
  2. ^ Gordon W. Morrell, Britain confronts the Stalin revolution: Anglo-Soviet relations.
  3. ↑ Time , May. 11, 1931, RUSSIA: Sir E. Ovey's Fork
  4. ↑ Gisela Cramer, Argentina in the Shadow of World War II: Problems of Economic Policy and the Transition to the Perón Era , p. 143

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predecessor Office successor
Lionel Edward Gresley Carden British Ambassador to Mexico City
1925–1929 		Edmund Monson
Charge d'Affaires Robert Hodgson British Ambassador to Moscow
1929–1933 		Aretas Akers-Douglas
George Clerk British ambassador to Brussels
1934–1937 		Robert Clive
Nevile Henderson British Ambassador to Buenos Aires
1937–1941 		David Victor Kelly
personal data
SURNAME Ovey, Esmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxfordshire
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1963