Fairfax Cartwright

Sir Fairfax Leighton Cartwright of Anyhoe (born July 20, 1857 - † January 9, 1928 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Fairfax Cartwright was born in 1857 as the second son of parliamentarian William Cornwallis Cartwright of Aynhoe (1825-1915) and his wife Clementne Gaul.

Cartwright finally embarked on a diplomatic career in the British Foreign Service: From 1899 to 1902 he served as Legation Councilor in Mexico and from 1902 to 1905 in Lisbon , before serving as an advisor to the British Mission in Madrid from 1905 to 1906 . From 1906 to 1908 he was British ambassador in Munich and Stuttgart , and finally in 1908 he reached the high point of his diplomatic career with the post of British ambassador to the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy in Vienna, where his activity lasted until 1913.

On October 16, 1898, Cartwright, who was a Privy Councilor on the British Privy Council, married Countess Donna Maria dei Marchesi Chigi-Zondadari, the daughter of an Italian senator. The marriage resulted in a son, Richard Fairfax William Cartwright of Anyhoe (* July 29, 1903, † March 31, 1954).

Works

• The Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King. A Fragment of the Vision of Sheikh Haji Ibrahim of Kerbela. Rendered into English or rather 1899.

literature

• Reinhold Haan: Sir Fairfax Cartwright, British envoy and ambassador 1906-1913, and his relationship with Germany. A contribution to the question of war guilt , Düsseldorf 1938. (Dissertation)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Descendants of Margaret Dymoke