William Conyngham Greene

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Sir William Conyngham Greene

Sir William Conyngham Greene KCB , GCMG , PC (born October 29, 1854 in Dublin , † June 30, 1934 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

William Conyngham Greene was the son of Louisa Plunkett and BJ Greene. He graduated from Harrow School , Pembroke College, Oxford. On October 9, 1877, he joined the foreign service. He was employed in Athens , Stuttgart , Darmstadt , The Hague and Brussels . In 1884 he married Lily Frances Stopford. They had a daughter and two sons. In 1894 he was charge d'affaires in Tehran . From August 25, 1896 to October 11, 1899, he was British agent Pretoria in the South African Republic .

After his mission there, the Second Boer War took place there. In 1900 he was a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for beaten knight . From 1901 to 1905 he was ambassador extraordinary and ministerial plénipotentiaire in Bern . In 1905 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Bucharest . From 1910 to 1912 he was envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire in Copenhagen . In 1914 he was inducted into the Order of St Michael and St George as the Knight Grand Cross .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Knights and Dames: FOX-GZ at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  2. ^ Ian Hill Nish, Hugh Cortazzi, Britain & Japan : biographical portraits

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predecessor Office successor
Frank Lascelles British Chargé d'Affaires in Tehran
1894 		Henry Mortimer Durand
Jacobus de Wet British agent in Pretoria
1896–1899
Frederick Robert St John British ambassador in Bern
1901–1905 		George Francis Bonham
Robert John Kennedy British Ambassador to Bucharest
1905 		Oliver Wardrop
Edward Goschen British ambassador in Copenhagen
1910–1912 		Henry Lowther
Claude Maxwell MacDonald British Ambassador to Tokyo
1912–1919 		Charles Eliot
personal data
SURNAME Greene, William Conyngham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1934