Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff

Sir Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff KCMG (born October 9, 1863 , † September 19, 1926 in Bath ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff was a son of ME Grant Duff, a governor of the Madras (presidency) . Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff was the brother of Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff and Adrian Grant Duff (born September 29, 1869), who was killed in combat on September 14, 1914. Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff entered the foreign service in 1888 and was sent to Rome . From 1892 to 1894 he learned Farsi in Tehran . He was then gradually employed in Saint Petersburg , Stockholm , Berlin and London.

In August 1902 Mozaffar ad-Din Shah was on a state visit to London and was accompanied by Duff. Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst was in charge of the protocol of the state visit. Victoria had accepted Naser ad-Din Shah on June 26, 1873 into the Order of the Garter. Edward VII refused to accept a Muslim into the Order of the Garter and forbade instructions with which he distinguished himself. On December 12, 1902, Shah Mozaffar ad-Din was admitted to the Order of the Garter by a special statute. In January 1903, Duff accompanied Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe on a special mission to Tehran , where Mozaffar ad-Din Shah was awarded the Order of the Garter on February 16, 1903, to arouse the jealousy of Constantinople and the resentment of Japan.

Even in 1903 Duff secretary of legation in Tehran where he was from September 1905 to September 1906 as chargé acted. The Constitutional Revolution began during his tenure . While the Russian legation supported the conservative monarchists, the British legation supported the supporters of a constitutional monarchy. From mid-July to August 5, 1906, 14,000 Persians sought refuge on the British legation grounds.

From late 1906 to 1910 Grant Duff was employed in Madrid. In 1910 he was appointed envoy in Caracas, but he did not take up this mission. From 1911 to 1913 he was Consul General in Budapest in Austria-Hungary . From 1913 to 1916 he was Plenipotentiary Envoy in Bern , Switzerland.

On March 27, 1900 he married Edith Florence Bonham (January 12, 1877 - May 30, 1937). Mrs. Grand Duff founded the "British Legation Red Cross Organization" in Bern and presided over the Bureau de Secours aux prisonniers de Guerre (British Section).

In 1913 he was accepted into the Order of St. Michael and St. George , made Knight Commander in 1916 and resigned from his post as British envoy in Bern in August 1916 due to illness.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paola Ghione, L'archivio Leone Caetani all'Accademia nazionale dei Lincei p. 176
2. ↑ [1]
3. ↑ [2]
4. ^ Peter Avery, William Bayne Fisher, Gavin Hambly, Charles Melville, The Cambridge history of Iran: From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic, p. 414
5. ^ Angus Hamilton, Problems of the Middle East, p. 105
6. ↑ p.34
7. ↑ [3]

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles Louis des Graz	British envoy to Tehran 1905–1906	Cecil Spring-Rice
Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay	British envoy in Dresden 1909–1913	-
Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith	British envoy in Bern 1913–1916	Theo William Odo Villiers Russell