Horace James Seymour

Sir Horace James Seymour GCMG CVO ( February 26, 1885 - September 10, 1978 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Horace James Seymour was a son of Rachel Blanche Lascelles and Hugh Francis Seymour. He studied at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge .

Seymour joined the foreign service in 1908. In 1919 he was second class embassy secretary in Washington, DC in 1923 he was first class embassy secretary in the Netherlands and in 1925 first class embassy secretary in Rome.

From April 9, 1929 to October 17, 1932 he was employed in the northern department of the FCO , which dealt with the Soviet Union , among other things . From 1932 to 1936 he was the office manager of the British Foreign Secretary. From 1936 to 1939 Seymour was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran. From 1939 to 1942 he was Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office. From 1942 to 1946 he was ambassador to China to Chiang Kai-shek and in 1947 he was retired .

From April to July 1947 he was a member of the Franco-Siamese border commission in Washington DC In December 1947 he became chairman of the British delegation of the United Nations Balkans Commission in Thessaloniki .

In 1917 Seymour married Violet Erskine; they had three daughters, Jane (who died in childhood on August 15, 1918), Joan and Virginia, and a son, Hugh Francis Seymour (born December 14, 1926). They lived at Bratton House, Bratton, Westbury, Wiltshire.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Keith Neilson, Britain, Soviet Russia and the collapse of the Versailles order, 1919–1939 , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005, p. 335.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen	British Ambassador to Tehran 1936–1939	Reader Bullard
Archibald Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel	British ambassador to China 1942–1946	Ralph Stevenson