Robert Hodgson (diplomat)

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Robert MacLeod Hodgson , KCMG , KBE (* 25. February 1874 in West Bromwich , Staffordshire , † 18th October 1956 ) was a British diplomat , among others from 1924 to 1927 affaires in the Soviet Union , and from 1928 to 1936 ambassador in Albania was .

Life

Robert MacLeod Hodgson was a son of the Anglican clergyman Robert Hodgson , who was Archdeacon of Stafford between 1898 and 1910 . He attended from 1887 to 1893 the Radley College and then began studying at Trinity College of the University of Oxford , where he graduated 1897th He found after joining the diplomatic service uses in numerous missions abroad as well as at the State Department ( Foreign Office ) . After diplomatic relations were downgraded at the end of World War I in the course of the October Revolution in 1917 and the murder of the tsarist family on July 18, 1918, Hodgson was Counselor for Trade at the diplomatic mission in the Soviet Union between 1919 and 1924 . During this time he was named Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1920 for his services .

1924 Hodgson was chargé (charge d'affaires) to the Embassy in the Soviet Union and served in this post until the break in relations, 1927. On June 3, 1925 he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire defeated (CFU), so that he henceforth the name suffix "Sir". He succeeded William Seeds' envoy to Albania in 1928 and remained there until 1936, when Andrew Ryan succeeded him. On June 8, 1939 he was also beaten Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG). Between 1943 and 1945 he was head of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London (UCL).

Robert MacLeod Hodgson was married to Olga Bellavin.

publication

  • Franco frente a Hitler . Ed. Ahr, Barcelona 1954

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 813
  2. ^ It was not until 1929 that Esmond Ovey became ambassador to the Soviet Union after diplomatic relations were resumed . A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 808 f.
  3. ↑ Knights and Dames
  4. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 621
  5. ↑ Knights and Dames
personal data
SURNAME Hodgson, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodgson, Robert MacLeod (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH West Bromwich , Staffordshire
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1956