Oliver Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh

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Oliver Charles Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh , GCMG , GCVO , CB (born November 26, 1893 - November 29, 1968 ) was a British diplomat and peer who was ambassador to France between 1948 and 1954 .

Life

He was the youngest son of Sir Charles Harvey, 2nd Baronet (1849-1928), from his second marriage to Mary Anne Edith Cooke. After attending the prestigious Malvern College , he began undergraduate degree at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge , which he with a Bachelor of Arts finished (BA). During the First World War he served in the British Army and took part in combat missions in France , Egypt and Palestine . For his military services he was mentioned in the war report ( Mentioned in dispatches ) . After the war he joined in 1919 in the diplomatic service of the Foreign Ministry ( Foreign Office ) and, after various uses, succeeding Horace James Seymour first time in 1936 the first private secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary) and closest colleague of Anthony Eden or of his successor Edward Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax . He held this post until he was replaced by Ralph Stevenson in 1939. For his services he was awarded as Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1937. He then acted from 1939 to 1940 as envoy at the embassy in France.

After his return, Harvey was the successor of Ralph Stevenson between 1941 and his replacement by Pierson John Dixon in 1943 again First Private Secretary to Secretary of State Anthony Eden. He then served in the Foreign Ministry from 1943 to 1946 as head of the Western and Central Europe subdivision (Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Western and Central Europe)) . For his services he was also Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1944 and was knighted on June 13, 1946 to Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir". From 1946 to 1948 he held the post of Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Political) . On January 1, 1948, he was also raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG).

In 1948 Sir Oliver Harvey succeeded Alfred Duff Cooper as ambassador to France and held this office until 1954, when Gladwyn Jebb took his place. On June 8, 1950, he was also beaten to the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO). After retiring from the diplomatic service, he was named a peer by a letters patent dated July 3, 1954 with the hereditary title Baron Harvey of Tasburgh , of Tasburgh in the County of Norfolk . He was thus a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) and was one of this until his death on 29 November 1968. On the death of his older half-brother Sir Charles Robert Lambart Edward Harvey, 3rd Baronet (1871-1954), who died without male descendants , he also inherited his title of 4th Baronet , of Crown Point, Trowse, in the County of on November 15, 1954  Norfolk.

His marriage on April 8, 1920 to Maud Annora Williams-Wynn, daughter of Arthur Watkin Williams-Wynn and his wife Alice Mary FitzWilliam, had two sons. The older son Peter Charles Oliver Harvey inherited his titles as 2nd baron and 5th baronet on his death. His second son, John Wynn Harvey, worked as a sculptor, painter and writer and was the father of Charles John Giuseppe Harvey , who inherited the titles of 3rd baron and 6th baronet on the death of his uncle, who died without male descendants on April 18, 2010.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 1009
  2. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 689
  3. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 1009
  4. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 689
  5. ↑ Knights and Dames
  6. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 913
  7. ↑ Knights and Dames
  8. ^ A Directory of British Diplomats , p. 687
  9. ↑ Knights and Dames
predecessor title successor
New title created Baron Harvey of Tasburgh
1954-1968 		Peter Harvey
Charles Harvey Baronet, of Crown Point
1954-1968 		Peter Harvey
personal data
SURNAME Harvey, Oliver, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harvey, Oliver Charles, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat and peer
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1893
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1968