Ronald Lindsay

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Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay (1928)

Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay , GCB , GCMG , CVO , PC (born May 3, 1877 - August 21, 1945 ) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to the German Reich between 1926 and 1928 .

Life

Family origins and beginning of a diplomatic career

Ronald Charles Lindsay was the sixth of seven children of the House of Commons James Ludovic Lindsay , who in 1880 inherited the title of 26th Earl of Crawford and thereby became a member of the House of Lords , and his wife Emily Florence Bootle-Wilbraham. His eldest and only sister, Lady Evelyn Margaret Lindsay, was married to the politician James Francis Mason , who represented the constituency of Windsor as a member of the House of Commons from 1906 to 1918 . His eldest brother was the politician David Alexander Edward Lindsay , who was also a member of the House of Commons and several times minister and after the death of her father in 1913 inherited the title of 27th Earl of Crawford and thereby also became a member of the House of Lords. His second oldest brother, Walter Patrick Lindsay, was a civil engineer and took part in the First World War as a captain , while his third oldest brother, Robert Hamilton Lindsay, took part in the Second Boer War and was most recently major of The Royal Scots Grays (2nd Dragoons) . His fourth oldest brother Edward Reginald Lindsay was a Catholic clergyman and his younger brother Lionel Lindsay, as captain of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, also participated in the First World War.

He himself entered the diplomatic service after attending Winchester College and was, among other things, Legation Secretary and Legation Councilor at the Embassy in the Netherlands between 1911 and 1913 and, from 1913 to 1919, Undersecretary for Finance of the British Administrative Authority in the Sultanate of Egypt , which on Declared a British Protectorate on December 18, 1914 . For his services there, he became Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) and Grand Officer of the Nile Order . Lindsay then became Counselor and Chancellor at the Embassy in the United States in 1919 and stayed there until 1920. He then took on the post of envoy at the Embassy in France between 1920 and 1921 and as Assistant Undersecretary in the State Department from 1921 to 1924 (Assistant Under -Secretary for Foreign Affairs) .

Ambassador to Turkey, the German Reich and the USA

In 1924, Ronald Lindsay replaced Horace Rumbold as High Commissioner in Turkey with his official seat in Constantinople , where he was the first ambassador to Turkey after he was raised to an embassy between 1925 and his replacement by George Russell Clerk in 1926 . On January 1, 1925, he was beaten Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) and has since had the suffix "Sir". On 24 July 1925 he was also a member of the Secret Privy Council about it ( Privy Council ) and on 5 June 1926, the Knight Grand Cross collected the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG). He then took over the post of ambassador to the German Reich in 1926 from Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon . He held this office until 1928, after which Horace Rumbold took over as his successor there.

As the successor to William George Tyrrell , he took over the post of Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1928 and was thus the highest official in the State Department as Permanent Under-Secretary until his replacement by Robert Gilbert Vansittart in 1930. During this time he was also beaten on June 3, 1929 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB). Most recently, he replaced Esmé William Howard as Ambassador to the United States in 1930 and held this office for nine years until he was replaced by Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian in 1939. In 1933, Harvard University awarded him an honorary doctorate in law. In addition, on June 8, 1939, he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

On March 18, 1909, Ronald Lindsay married Martha Cameron, whose father James Donald Cameron was US Secretary of War and Republican US Senator from Pennsylvania , and was married to her until her death on April 28, 1918. On July 14, 1924, he married the daughter of the American entrepreneur Colgate Hoyt , Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, who died on September 3, 1945 just a few days after him. Both marriages remained childless.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 784
  2. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 860
  3. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 689
  4. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 922
  5. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 848
  6. ↑ Knights and Dames
  7. ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915–1968
  8. ↑ Knights and Dames
  9. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 911
  10. ↑ Knights and Dames
  11. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 856
  12. ↑ Knights and Dames
predecessor Office successor
Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet British High Commissioner / Ambassador to Turkey
1924–1926 		George Russell Clerk
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon British ambassador to the German Reich
1926–1928 		Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet
Esmé Howard British ambassador to the USA
1930–1939 		Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
personal data
SURNAME Lindsay, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindsay, Ronald Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1877
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1945