George Earle Welby

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Sir George Earle Welby KCMG ( January 9, 1851 - August 25, 1936 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

George Earle Welby was the only son of George E. Welby, a clergyman in Barrowby, Lincolnshire. He entered the foreign service on August 22, 1874 and passed his attaché examination on December 2, 1874. On June 7, 1875, he was sent as an attaché to the British Embassy in Buenos Aires, and in December 1876 promoted to Third Secretary. After taking up secretary positions at the British Embassy in Stockholm and Brussels , he was British Ambassador to Colombia from 1898 to 1906 .

With the completion of his career as an ambassador, he was inducted into the Order of St. Michael and St. George as Knight Commander in 1906 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the foreign officer list and diplomatic and consular hand book January 1877 Sir Cecil Harcourt-Smith, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932, 134 pp.
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24409, HMSO, London, January 26, 1877, p. 369 ( PDF , accessed October 17, 2010, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26553, HMSO, London, September 18, 1894, p. 5361 ( PDF , accessed October 17, 2010, English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26828, HMSO, London, March 2, 1897, p. 1253 ( PDF , accessed October 17, 2010, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27937, HMSO, London, August 3, 1906, p. 5341 ( PDF , accessed October 17, 2010, English).
predecessor Office successor
Charles Bean Euan-Smith British Ambassador to Colombia
November 23, 1898 to 1906 		Francis William Stronge
personal data
SURNAME Welby, George Earle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1851
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1936