James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell

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Sir James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell KCMG (* 1830 ) was a British diplomat .

James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell was appointed attaché on May 20, 1857 and sent to Rio de Janeiro on August 29, 1857. From 1862 he was accredited at the court of Saint Petersburg.

From October 1869 to November 1870 he was accredited to the embassy in Berlin and reported under the title Report on Land in Prussia on the agricultural legislation and the property situation in Prussia. This report was included in the Foreign Office Report on Land Tenure in Prussia and the North German Confederation (1869).

In 1872 Harriss-Gastrell reported on the work situation of the so-called "Lowell Mill Girls", the textile workers in Lowell (Massachusetts) . His study was in United States. Reports by Her Majesty's Secretaries of Embassy and Legation Respecting Factories for the Spinning and Weaving of Textile Fabrics Abroad (London, 1873), published.

In 1875 James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell was accredited in Budapest.

In 1876 he was accredited in Sofia.

In 1881 James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell was Embassy Secretary in Rio de Janeiro under Ambassador Edwin Corbett.

During his time as envoy in Bogotá from June 1882 onwards, James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell employed Alfred Hettner . From 1887 to 1901, James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell was Prime Minister in Honduras.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the foreign officer list and diplomatic and consular hand book 1877
  2. ^ Johann Ludwig Tellkampf, self-administration and reform of the community and district regulations in 1872 , 161 p
  3. ↑ Edith Abbott, Women in Industry; A Study in American Economic History
  4. ^ The statesman's year-book , St. Martin's Press, 1876
  5. ^ Charles J. Adams, Wael B. Hallaq , Donald Presgrave Little, Islamic studies presented to Charles J. Adams
  6. ^ Alfred Hettner, Travels in the Colombian Andes: 1888, 397 p.
predecessor Office successor
Augustus Henry Mounsey British Prime Minister in Colombia
June 1882 to January 1883 		Frederick Robert St John
Frederick Robert St John British Prime Minister in Central America, based in Guatemala from
1890 to 1897 		Charles Audley Goslin
personal data
SURNAME Harriss-Gastrell, James Plaister
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH 1830
DATE OF DEATH 20th century