Gerald James Edmondson

Gerald James Ellis Edmondson (born September 19, 1898 in Devonshire ) was a British civil servant and diplomat .

Life and activity

Edmondson was a son of the architect James Curtice Ellis and his wife Laura Emily O'Brien Vincent. After attending Westminster Cathedral School and the City of London College, he took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 .

In 1920 Edmondson entered the civil service. In 1920 he was accepted as a finance officer in the service of the British Ministry of Labor (Ministry of Labor). On May 28, 1923, he passed the entrance exam for service as a clerical officer and was then taken on as a civil servant in the Ministry of Commerce, where he remained until 1925.

On July 29, 1925 Edmondson was assigned to the British diplomatic service in Japan : As part of his activities in Japan he was appointed proconsul in Dairen on February 20, 1929 .

On September 22, 1941, Edmondson was withdrawn from Japan and made available to the Ministry of War Transport in London. He then moved to the British Consulate General in New York , where he was raised to the rank of Vice Consul on July 26, 1942. After the end of the war he was transferred to Baltimore as proconsul on September 25, 1945 .

On July 16, 1946, Edmondson was assigned to the British Liaison Mission in Japan. On November 1, 1946, he was transferred to Yokohama , where he held the post of executive consul from July 12, 1947.

literature

• The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book , 1949, p. 216.
• Who's Who in a Japan , 1939, p. 89.