Milne Cheetham

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Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham , KCMG (born July 9, 1869 in Preston , Lancashire ; † January 6, 1938 ) was a British diplomat who, among other things, was first executive high commissioner in the Sultanate of Egypt for a short time between 1914 and 1915 and envoy in the Sultanate of Egypt from 1922 to 1924 Switzerland , between 1924 and 1926 was envoy to Greece and most recently from 1926 to 1928 envoy to Denmark .

Life

Joshua Milne Cheetham Crompton was the son of the politician Joshua Milne Cheetham , who from 1892 to 1895 member of the House ( House of Commons ) was. After attending Rossall School , he graduated with the support of a scholarship to study classics at Christ Church of University of Oxford . He found after joining the diplomatic service uses in numerous missions abroad as well as at the State Department ( Foreign Office ) and was from 1907 to 1910 legation secretary at the embassy in Brazil . Subsequently, between 1910 and 1914 he was Legation Councilor at the Political Agent and Consul General for the Khedivat Egypt and from 1914 to 1918 Legation Councilor at the High Commissioner for the Sultanate of Egypt . He was named Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1912 for his services . During this time he acted from December 19, 1914 until his replacement by Henry McMahon on January 9, 1915, also briefly as the first executive high commissioner in the Sultanate of Egypt . After the First World War broke out in August 1914 , Rashīd Ridā commissioned Muhibb ad-Dīn al-Khatīb in October 1914 to contact the political leaders of Iraq and Najd in order to find out their views on the future of the Arab countries. The mission was financially supported by Milne Cheetham as High Commissioner in Egypt, who was in contact with the Decentralization Party. Subsequently he was beaten on January 9, 1915 to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir". Most recently he was envoy to the High Commission in Egypt between 1918 and 1919 .

In 1920 Cheetham briefly acted as envoy in Peru and was accredited as such in Ecuador . Between 1921 and 1922 he was envoy at the embassy in France and in 1922 replaced Odo William Theophilus Russell as envoy in Switzerland . He held this post until 1924 and was then replaced by Rowland Arthur Charles Sperling . He himself, in turn, took over the reoccupied post as envoy to Greece in 1924 and held it until he was replaced by Percy Lyham Loraine in 1926. Most recently in 1926 he succeeded Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville envoy in Denmark and remained in this position until 1928, when Thomas Beaumont Hohler succeeded him there.

Milne has been married twice. In his first marriage he married Anastasia Murawjewa in 1907, stepdaughter of the Minister of Justice of the Russian Empire from 1894 to 1905, Nikolai Valerianowitsch Muravjew . From this marriage emerged the diplomat Nicolas Cheetham , who was ambassador to Mexico between 1964 and 1968 . In his second marriage he married on July 11, 1923 Cynthia Charlette Seymour, whose father Horace Alfred Seymour Damer between 1894 and his death in 1902 as Deputy Master of the Mint Deputy Director of the Royal Mint ( Royal Mint ) was. This marriage remained childless.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joshua Cheetham on the Hansard homepage
  2. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 645
  3. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 679
  4. ↑ Knights and Dames (leighrayment.com)
  5. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 677
  6. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 794
  7. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 689
  8. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 837
  9. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 719
  10. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 671
  11. ↑ Nicolas Cheetham , in: A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 96
  12. ^ Sir Horace Alfred Damer Seymour in The Peerage.com
personal data
SURNAME Cheetham, Milne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cheetham, Joshua Milne Crompton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Preston , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1938