Percy Lyham Loraine

Percy Lyham Loraine

Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, 12th Baronet KCMG , PC (born November 5, 1880 in London , † May 23, 1961 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Percy Lyham Loraine was the son of Frederica Broke and Sir Lambton Loraine. From 1893 to 1899 he studied at Eton College and from 1899 to 1901 at New College, Oxford. From 1901 to 1902 was used in the Second Boer War in South Africa. In 1904 he joined the foreign service. From 1907 he was attaché in Constantinople . In 1907 he became third-class embassy secretary in Tehran . In 1909 he became the second class embassy secretary in Rome . In 1911 he was employed in Beijing and from 1912 to 1916 in Paris . In 1916 he became first class secretary of the embassy in Madrid . In 1917 he inherited the title of Baronet , of Kirke Harle in the County of Northumberland, and extensive estates from his father . He was employed in the secretariat of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 . In October 1919 he was sent to Warsaw in newly formed Poland as first-class embassy secretary . On August 4, 1919, Romanian troops captured Budapest and occupied large parts of Hungary. From October to December 1919 he accompanied Sir George Clark, the head of the Orient Department in the FO, on a special mission to Budapest. From 1921 to 1926 he was envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire in Tehran .

In 1924 he married Louise Stuart-Wortley. From 1926 to 1929 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Athens . After George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd , was forced to resign as High Commissioner of Egypt and Sudan , the Labor Government sent Perce Loraine to this government office. From August 8, 1929 to December 16, 1933 he was High Commissioner in Cairo for Egypt and Sudan. Under his administration, Fu'ad I was established as ruler. From 1933 to 1939 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Ankara , and from 1939 to 1940 Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Rome . His initiative is in part attributed to the fact that the government of Benito Mussolini was neutral at the start of World War II. Since Percy Loraine had endorsed the Munich Agreement , he was no longer used by the Winston Churchill government during World War II. In 1941 he was retired . In the absence of male descendants, his baronet title expired on his death.

Web links

• Newspaper article about Percy Lyham Loraine in the press kit 20th Century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.hungarianhistory.com/lib/maj/maj06.htm
2. ↑ Rudyard Kipling, The letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 6; Volumes 1931-1936 , p. 16, FN. 13
3. ↑ PDF at www.sant.ox.ac.uk

predecessor	Office	successor
Herman Cameron Norman	British ambassador to Tehran 1921–1926	Robert Henry Clive
Milne Cheetham	British Ambassador to Athens 1926–1929	Hon. Patrick Ramsay
George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd	British High Commissioner in Cairo 1929–1933	Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
George Russell Clerk	British Ambassador to Ankara 1933–1939	Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen
Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth	British Ambassador to Rome 1939–1940	Noel Charles