William Taylour Thomson

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Sir William Taylour Thomson KCMG , CB ( 1813 - September 15, 1883 Inverleithen in Perthshire ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Thomson, William Taylour was a trained draftsman. From 1834 to 1837 he was assistant to the astronomer Lieutenant Hastings Fitz-Edward Murphy (* 1798 in Kerry, † 1836) on the Euphrates expedition . He was one of the survivors of the sinking of His Majesty's Steamer "Tigris" on the Euphrates on May 28, 1836. On June 12, 1837, he was appointed to the paid attaché in Tehran .

In 1839 the Persians besieged Herat with Russian military advisors . From the perspective of British India , the city on the Silk Road occupied a key strategic position, which the Governor of British India George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland saw best secured by the installation of an independent regent under British protection. Ambassador Sir John McNeill traveled to London and did public work with the Russian threat to the Empire and the remainder of the mission with Thomson moved to Erzurum . To defend the security of British India, the first Anglo-Afghan war was started.

From 1841 to 1842 he was sent to Allah Quli Bahadur, Khan of Khiva Khanate , when William George Keith Elphinstone tried to withdraw from Kabul . On the trip he explored the area between Persia and the Khiva Khanate. He was entrusted with research in Sanandaj and Sulaimaniyya about the circumstances that led to an armed conflict between Ottoman and Persian troops in Mehrivan in 1842. From 6 to 29 November 1849 he was charge d'affaires in Tehran. On April 7, 1852 he was appointed legation secretary in Tehran, where he was again chargé d'affaires from March 7, 1853 to April 17, 1855. The Anglo-Persian War cut off diplomatic relations between the British and Persian governments on November 5, 1855. On December 5, 1855, he was posted to Baghdad . From February 24, 1858 to 1872, he was chargé d'affaires and consul general in Santiago de Chile .

From February 19, 1873 to 1879, he succeeded Charles Alison as envoy extraordinary, ministre plénipotentiaire and consul general in Tehran . In 1879 he was retired .

predecessor Office successor
Francis Farrant British Ambassador to Tehran
November 6-29, 1849 and 1853–1855 		Charles Augustus Murray
British Ambassador to Iraq
1855
Edward Harris British ambassador to Chile
1858–1861 		Albert Stewart Raikes
Charles Alison British ambassador to Tehran
1873–1879 		Ronald Ferguson Thomson

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edited by CU Aitchison, BCS, A collection of Treatiex, Engagements, and Sunnuds, relating to india and neighboring countries, p. 153
  2. ↑ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Reports from committees , p. 483
  3. ↑ 25 February 1873, http://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/8349/page/117/page.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  4. ↑ Ursula Naumann, Euphrates Queen: an expedition to paradise , 2006, 320 p., P. 319
  5. ^ Francis Rawdon Chesney, Narrative of the Euphrates expedition 1835, 1836, and 1837, p. 546
personal data
SURNAME Taylour Thomson, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH 1813
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1883
Place of death Inverleithen in Perthshire