Francis William Stronge

Sir Francis William Stronge KCMG (born November 22, 1856 in Balleskie Fife , † August 20, 1924 in Kilbroney House, Rostrevor, County Down ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Francis William Stronge the second son of Lady Margaret Stronge and Sir John Calvert Stronge. He attended Dublin University and joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, where he reached the rank of sub-lieutenant until he left in 1876.

Stronge entered the foreign service in 1879. He was accredited to the embassies in Vienna, Beijing, Constantinople, Rome and Athens. In 1903 he became Consul General for Hungary in Austria-Hungary . In 1904 he became Prime Minister in Constantinople at the Sublime Porte . From 1906 to 1911 he was envoy in Bogotá ( Colombia ). On November 10, 1909, he married Maria Elizabeth Fraser of Castleconnell.

From 1911 to 1913 he was British ambassador to Mexico.

Francis William Stronge was the British envoy to Mexico at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution . Sherburne Gillette Hopkins had portrayed the power struggle between Francisco Madero and Porfirio Díaz as a struggle between the Compañía Mexicana de Petróleo El Aguila SA, founded by the British Weetman Pearson, and the US subsidiary Pierce Oil Corporation of the Standard Oil Company . During his reign, Francisco Madero left the state structure untouched. Francisco Madero and his brother Gustavo were tortured and murdered in 1913. Gustavo Adolfo Madero's body showed that he had suffered massive mutilation while he was still alive.

Stronge tried to delay the meeting of the diplomatic corps with the new ruler Adolfo de la Huerta and thus the recognition of his government. He telegraphed his superiors in London that he feared there was no doubt that the president and his deputy were executed on the orders of the revolutionary leaders Huerta and Díaz. While the US envoy Henry Lane Wilson was a driving force at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, Stronge was above all an avid ornithologist . Adolfo de la Huerta saw this as a privilege and tried in vain to obtain an extension of Stronge's term in Mexico through Weetman Pearson.

From 1913 to 1919 Stronge was British Ambassador to Santiago de Chile . He was inducted into the Order of St. Michael and St. George on June 3, 1915 .

He helped the Chilean Navy sell the battleships Almirante Latorre and Almirante Cochrane , under construction in the UK and completed as the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle , to the Royal Navy .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josefina MacGregor: Revolución y diplomacia: México y España, 1913-1917. Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana, 2002, p. 43.
2. ↑ Durante el período de lucha y confusión que vivió la Ciudad de México a raíz del intento de golpe militar de Reyes y Félix Diaz en febrero de, el ministro de su majestad británica, Francis William Stronge, simplemente se dedicó a apoyar las iniciativas del embajiativas norte americano: University of Texas at Austin. - 1983 The Mexican forum: Volumes 3-5 Office for Mexican Studies.
3. ^ Alison Fleig Frank: Oil empire: visions of prosperity in Austrian Galicia

predecessor	Office	successor
Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet	British Consul General in Budapest 1903	Sir Douglas Howard
	British Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, 1904	Ronald Lindsay
George Earle Welby	British ambassador to Colombia 1906 to 1911	Percy Charles Hugh Wyndham
Reginald Thomas Tower	British ambassador to Mexico 1911 to 1913	Lionel Edward Gresley Carden
Sir Brooke Boothby , 10th Baronet	British Ambassador to Santiago de Chile 1913-1919	Archibald Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel