Frederick Robert St John

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Sir Frederick Robert St John KCMG (March 2, 1831 - February 27, 1923 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Frederick Robert St John was the fourth son of Selina Charlotte Keatinge and George St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke .

St John graduated from Cheltenham College . In 1855 he entered the foreign service. He was an attaché in Florence and in 1861 in Stuttgart . From 1862 to 1863 he was the embassy secretary in Beijing . From 1868 to 1872 he was at the embassy in Vienna. From 1872 Frederick Robert St John was embassy secretary in Buenos Aires. From 1877 Frederick Robert St John was Embassy Secretary in Rio de Janeiro . From 1879 Frederick Robert St John was the embassy secretary in Constantinople .

On February 12, 1881, he was appointed envoy to Central America. On April 18, 1882, he married Isabella Annie Fitzmaurice. They had three daughters and three sons. Oliver Peter St John (* 1938) is the grandson from this marriage.

In 1901 Frederick Robert St John was retired and Knight Commander in the Order of St. Michael and St. George .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmund Burke, Annual register 1861 , Volume 102
  2. ↑ “CHAPTER VII VIENNA 1868-1872 FROM Constantinople I was transferred in 1868 to Vienna, where I served during nearly four years first under Lord Bloomfield and then under Sir Andrew Buchanan. Both chiefs were all that a subordinate could ”, from Sir Frederick Robert St. John, Reminiscences of a retired diplomat , 1905, 315 pp.
  3. ↑ THE Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Frederic Robert St. John, Esq., Now Secretary to Her Majesty 'Embassy at Constantinople to be Her Majesty'S Minister Resident and Consul-General to the Republics of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador, http://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/24943/pages/920  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
predecessor Office successor
Sidney Locock British Minister Resident in Central America, based in Guatemala
December 1881 to 1884 		James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell
James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell British minister resident in Colombia
December 1884 to 1888 		William John Dickson
Charles Edward Mansfield British minister resident in Venezuela
March to December 1884 		William Henry Doveton Haggard
George Hugh Wyndham British envoy to Serbia
February 1, 1888 to January 1893 		Edmund Douglas Veitch Fane
Charles Stewart Scott British envoy to Switzerland
January 1893 to 1901 		Sir Conyngham Greene
personal data
SURNAME St John, Frederick Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1831
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1923