Mervyn MacDonnell

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Mervyn Sorley MacDonnell , OBE (born July 24, 1880 in Sligo , Ireland ; † March 22, 1949 in Bath , England ) was a British government official, long-time colonial official in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1905–1912) and British-ruled Egypt (1912–1912) 1923) and High Commissioner in the Free City of Danzig (1923–1926).

Life

Career

MacDonnell was educated at Cheltenham College and studied at Trinity College , Dublin .

During the First World War he was employed in the General Staff of the British Expeditionary Forces in Egypt ( Egyptian Expeditionary Force ) from 1915 to 1919 . Back in service in Egypt, he was appointed governor (1920–1923) of the Western Desert Province there. As early as February 1923 he was appointed High Commissioner of the League of Nations in the Free City of Danzig and remained in office until February 1926.

In 1931 he was commissioner responsible for the partition of Transjordan .

family

In 1908 he married Ethel Gladys Jameson († 1973), with whom he had three daughters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Whitaker's peerage, baronetage, knightage and companionage. For the year 1925, ZDB -ID 643528-2 , p. 691 .
  2. ^ Peter Truhart : Regents of Nations. = Rulers of the nations. Part 4, Volume 2: Eastern, Northern & Central Europe. = Eastern, Northern and Central Europe. 2., revised and enlarged edition. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-21549-5 , p. 130 .
  3. ^ John Brown Mason: The Danzig Dilemma. A Study in Peacemaking by Compromise. Stanford University Press et al., Stanford CA 1946, p. 352 .
personal data
SURNAME MacDonnell, Mervyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacDonnell, Mervyn Sorley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Government Official; High Commissioner in the Free City of Danzig (1923–1926)
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Sligo , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1949
Place of death Bath , England