Frank Lascelles

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Frank Cavendish Lascelles

Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles GCB , GCMG , GCVO , PC (born March 23, 1841 in London , † January 2, 1920 ibid) was a British diplomat .

Life

He served as ambassador to Russia and Germany.

Lascelles was the fifth son of Lady Caroline Georgiana and William Saunders Sebright Lascelles.

He studied at Harrow School before joining the foreign service in 1861. He has been employed in Madrid, Paris, Rome, Washington, DC, and Athens. From March 20 to October 10, 1879 he was Consul General in Egypt, under the rule of Ismail Pasha . From 1879 to 1887 Lascelles was Consul General in Sofia Bulgaria, which emerged as an autonomous principality from the Berlin Congress in 1878. From 1887 to 1891 Lascelles was envoy to Bucharest Romania. From 1891 to 1894 Lascelles was ambassador to Tehran , Persia, where his niece Gertrude Bell visited him. This reported a cholera epidemic in Tehran in the summer of 1892.

From 1894 to 1895 Lascelles was ambassador to Saint Petersburg . From 1895 to 1908 Lascelles was ambassador to Berlin . During his tenure in Berlin, Wilhelm II sent the Krüger dispatch . Lascelles became KCMG in 1886, GCMG in 1892, GCB in 1897 and GCVO in 1904. In 1892 he was accepted into the Privy Council .

In 1869 he married Mary Lascelles Emma Olliffe (* 1845; † 1897). Your children were:

  • William Frank Lascelles (born March 21, 1863 - † March 8, 1913, married Sybil Beauclerk)
  • Gerald Claud Lascelles (born July 19, 1869 - † June 26, 1919, married Cecil Raffo)
  • Florence Caroline Lascelles (born January 27, 1876 - December 9, 1961, married Sir Cecil Spring-Rice )
Frank Cavendish Lascelles buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Denis Wright, The English amongst the Persians: imperial lives in nineteenth-century Iran , p. 92
predecessor Office successor
British ambassador to Bulgaria
1879–1887 		Henry George Outram Bax-Ironside
Charles Mansfield British ambassador to Bucharest
1887–1891 		John Kennedy
Robert John Kennedy British ambassador to Tehran
1891–1894 		William Conyngham Greene
Robert Morier British ambassador to Russia
1894–1895 		Nicholas Roderick O'Conor
Edward Malet British ambassador to the German Empire
1895–1908 		Edward Goschen
personal data
SURNAME Lascelles, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lascelles, Sir Frank Cavendish
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1920
Place of death London