George Russell Clerk

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George Russell Clerk ( Albert Smith , 1934)

Sir George Russell Clerk GCMG , CB , PC ( November 29, 1874 - June 18, 1951 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

George Russell Clerk attended Eton College and then studied at New College , Oxford . He joined the Foreign Service in 1899 and was promoted to third class Embassy Secretary on March 21, 1901. From 1903 to 1904 George Russell Clerk was Consul General in Addis Ababa . In 1906 he was chargé d'affaires in the kingdom of Abyssinia . In 1907 he was an assistant in the Foreign Office . In 1910 he was chargé d'affaires in Constantinople . In 1919 he was the private secretary of the Foreign Minister. From 1919 to 1926 he was the British envoy in Prague . From 1926 to 1933 was ambassador in Ankara .

In 1933 he became ambassador to Brussels . From 1934 to 1937 he was ambassador to Paris . In 1937, Clerk was retired .

He was a member of the Privy Council , Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, and Companion of the Order of the Bath . He also received various foreign medals.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appoint Mr. George Russell Clerk to be on Acting Third Secretary in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service. Scottish Office. In: London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 27297, HMSO, London, March 21, 1901, p. 2021 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ Time , June 13, 1932, [1]
  3. ↑ Sir George Russell Clerk, GCMG, CB, to be His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of the Belgians. In: London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 34006, HMSO, London, December 19, 1933, p. 8219 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).
  4. ↑ Caroline Milow, The Ukrainian Question 1917-1923 in the Tension Field of European Diplomacy , p. 476

literature

predecessor Office successor
British ambassador to Czechoslovakia
1919–1926 		James William Ronald Macleay
Ronald Lindsay British ambassador to Turkey
1926–1933 		Percy Loraine, 12th Baronet
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville British Ambassador to Belgium in
1933 		Esmond Ovey
William Tyrrell, 1st Baron Tyrrell British ambassador to France
1934–1937 		Eric Phipps


personal data
SURNAME Clerk, George Russell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clerk, George R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1874
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1951