William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester

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William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester , also cited William THF Strangways, (* 7. May 1795 , † 10. January 1865 ) was a British diplomat , Whig - politician and geologist .

Life

Fox-Strangways attended Westminster School and studied at Oxford ( Christ Church College ) with a bachelor's degree in 1816 and a master's degree in 1820 and then entered the service of the State Department . He was attaché to the embassies of St. Petersburg (1819), Istanbul (1820), Naples , The Hague , legation secretary in Florence (1825 to 1828) and Naples (1828 to 1832), and embassy secretary in Vienna (1832 to 1835) ) and from 1835 to 1840 Undersecretary of State in the State Department in the government of Lord Melbourne . After that he was British envoy to the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main until 1849 and also from 1847 Ministre plénipotentiaire to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Duchy of Nassau . After the death of his older half-brother Henry Fox-Strangways (1787-1858) in 1858 he inherited the title and moved into the House of Lords .

During his time in Saint Petersburg, he studied the geology of Russia , which he published in 1821/22, including an early geological map . From 1821 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society .

He was married to Sophia Penelope Sheffield from 1857; the couple had no children. His nephew Henry (1847-1905) succeeded him on the title. William Thomas collected early Italian paintings, some of which he bequeathed to Christ Church College, Oxford, and some to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He was also active in the botany of the European flora and dealt with Slavic languages.

Fonts

  • Geological Sketch of the Environs of Petersburg, Transactions of the Geological Society of London 5, 1821, pp. 392-458.
  • An Outline of the Geology of Russia, Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Ser. 2, 1822, pp. 1–39 (map on plate II in the appendix).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to A. Erman, On the dermal state and the almälige development of geognostic knowledge of European Russia , A. Erman, Archive for the scientific customer of Russia, Volume 1, 1841, p. 72f, the earliest coherent account of the geology of Russia
personal data
SURNAME Fox-Strangways, William, 4th Earl of Ilchester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fox-Strangways, William Thomas Horner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1795
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1865