Henry Getty Chilton

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Henry Getty Chilton (1922)

Henry Getty Chilton CMG ( October 15, 1887 , † 1954 ) was a British ambassador .

Life

Henry Getty Chilton joined the foreign service on January 25, 1902. On April 10, 1904, he was promoted to third degree Embassy Secretary. In 1906 he married Katharine Thomas J. O'Brien, the daughter of Thomas J. O'Brien , US ambassador to Japan from 1907 to 1911 and in Rome from 1911 to 1913. On March 13, 1908, Chilton was posted to Vienna , 1910 to Berlin and 1913 to The Hague . In 1915 he was promoted to first class secretary and in 1918 to Washington . In 1920 he was counselor at the embassy in Rio de Janeiro .

Sir Henry Getty Chilton was accredited to the Washington Embassy from 1918 to 1920 and 1921 to 1928. On October 15, 1923 he was chargé d'affaires.

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in August 1936, Ambassador Chilton left Madrid and joined the putschists via Hendaye .

"I hope they send in enough Germans to end the war."

- Henry Getty Chilton

He was retired in 1940 , reactivated until 1945 in the Ministry of Economic War and in the Ministry of Information .

predecessor Office successor
Odo Russell British Ambassador to the Holy See
1928–1930 		George Ogilvie-Forbes
Archibald Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel British ambassador to Santiago de Chile
1930–1933 		Bertrand Jerram
James William Ronald Macleaca British ambassador to Buenos Aires
1933–1935 		Nevile Henderson
George Dixon Grahame British ambassador in Madrid
1935–1940 		Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great Britain Foreign Office, The Foreign office list and diplomatic and consular year book, 1925
  2. ↑ http://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/15032/page/12/page.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  3. ^ Time , September 7, 1936, SPAIN: Safety First
  4. ↑ William Laird Small-Ahlbrandt, The policy of simmering: a study of British policy during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 , M. Nijhoff, 1962 - 162 p, p 98
  5. ↑ Great Britain. Foreign Office, The Foreign office list and diplomatic and consular year book , Harrison and sons., 1964
personal data
SURNAME Chilton, Henry Getty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chilton, Billy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1887
DATE OF DEATH 1954