Use dmy dates date March 2012 File Stephen Tennant.jpg right 300px Stephen James Napier Tennant 21 April 1906 28 February 1987 was a British aristocrat known for his decadent lifestyle. It is said, albeit apocrypha lly, that he spent most of his life in bed. Early life He was born in England, the youngest son of a Scottish people Scots peerage peer , Edward Priaulx Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner , and the former Pamela Wyndham, one of the Wyndham sisters and of The Souls clique. His mother was also a cousin of Lord Alfred Douglas 1870 1945 , Oscar Wilde s lover and a sonnet eer. On his father s death, Tennant s mother married Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Lord Grey , a fellow bird lover. Tennant s eldest brother was Edward Wyndham Tennant Edward Bim who was killed in the First World War. Social set During the 20s and 30s, Tennant was an important member the Brightest , it is said of the Bright Young People . His friends included Rex Whistler , Cecil Beaton , the Sitwells , Lady Diana Manners and Mitford family the Mitford girls part of the set that made the Nordstrom Sisters popular at Ritz Hotel The Ritz in 1939. He is widely considered to be the model for Cedric Hampton in Nancy Mitford Nancy Mitford s novel Love in a Cold Climate one of the inspirations for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh Waugh s Brideshead Revisited , and a model for Hon. Miles Malpractice in some of his other novels. Writing For most of his life, Tennant tried to start or finish a novel Lascar novel Lascar . It is popularly believed that he spent the last 17 years of his life in bed at his family manor house manor at Wilsford, Wiltshire , which he had redecorated by Syrie Maugham . Though undoubtedly idle, he was not truly lethargic he made several visits to the United States and Italy , and struck up many new friendships, despite his later reputation as a recluse . This became increasingly true only towards the last years of his life. Yet even then, his life was not uneventful ... more details
unreferenced date August 2008 File Bundesarchiv Bild 102 11466, Sir Eric Drummond.jpg thumb 200px Sir Eric Drummond James Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth , GCMG , Order of the Bath CB 17 August 1876 15 December 1951 was a Scotland Scottish List of Scottish representative peers representative peer , a United Kingdom British diplomacy diplomat and the first Secretary General of the League of Nations . Because of the history of the Earl of Perth Earldom of Perth attainder 1715, reversed 1853 , he is sometimes considered the 7th Earl of Perth . Half brother of the William Drummond, 15th Earl of Perth , Drummond was born in North Yorkshire , England . He was educated at Eton College Eton and began his Foreign Office career in 1900. In 1906, he became private secretary to Edmond FitzMaurice, 1st Baron FitzMaurice Lord Edmund Petty FitzMaurice , the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs . In 1908 and again from 1910 to 1911, he was pr cis writer for Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Sir Edward Grey , the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs . He served as the League of Nations Secretary General from the organization s foundation in 1919 until 1933 when he became Britain s ambassador to Italy . As Secretary General, he helped to establish high standards for loyalty to the international civil service that have influenced his successors in both the League and the post World War II United Nations. He succeeded to the Earl dom in 1937 upon his half brother s death and entered the House of Lords . In 1939, Drummond returned to Britain and served during the Second World War as chief advisor on foreign publicity in the Ministry of Information United Kingdom Ministry of Information . From 1946 until his death, he served as deputy leader of the The Liberal Party UK Liberal Party in the House of Lords. References reflist s start s dip s bef before William Tyrrell, 1st Baron Tyrrell William, The Lord Tyrrell s ttl title Principal Private Secretar ... more details
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William George Tyrrell, 1st Baron Tyrrell Order of the Bath GCB , Order of St Michael and St George GCMG , Royal Victorian Order KCVO , Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council PC 17 August 1866 14 March 1947 was a United Kingdom British civil servant and diplomat. He was Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1925 and 1928 and List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to France British Ambassador to France from 1928 to 1934. Background and education Tyrell, a grandson of an India n princess , was educated in Germany he spoke fluent German and at Balliol College, Oxford . Career Tyrrell served in the Foreign Office from 1889 to 1928. He was private secretary to the Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Thomas Sanderson, 1st Baron Sanderson Thomas Sanderson from 1896 to 1903 and then secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence from 1903 to 1904 before being appointed as second secretary at the British embassy in Rome. He returned firstly as precis writer from 1905 to 1907 and later, with Louis Mallet , as private secretary to Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Sir Edward Grey from 1907 to 1915. Tyrrell supported the Entente Cordiale with France and did not think a rapprochement with Imperial Germany was possible before 1914. He appears to have been one of Grey s few intimates but an inherent laziness and frustration with red tape make an assessment of his influence difficult. Certainly however Tyrrell played a more important role than his title might suggest and, for example, in the autumn of 1913 he was sent to Washington, D.C. Washington as a personal ambassador by Grey to discuss the situation in Mexico following the overthrow of Francesco Madero . In the spring of 1915 Tyrrell appears to have suffered an almost total breakdown perhaps precipitated by the death of his younger son that year and he was moved to a less stressful job at the Home Office before being made head of the Political Intelligence Departm ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 Other persons Richard Onslow Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl Onslow Order of the British Empire GBE , Privy Council of the United Kingdom PC 23 August 1876 &ndash 9 June 1945 , styled Viscount Cranley until 1911, was a Peerage British peer , diplomat, parliamentary secretary and government minister. Background and education Onslow was the son of William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow and the Honourable Florence Coulston Gardner. He was educated at Eton College Eton and New College, Oxford before joining the Diplomatic Service in 1901. Diplomatic career He became an Attach to Madrid a year later, Third Secretary to Tangier in 1903 and to St Petersburg in 1904 and Second Secretary to Berlin in 1907. In 1909, he became assistant private secretary to Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Sir Edward Grey , the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs . He then held a number of positions in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Foreign Office as a clerk in 1910, private secretary to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1911 13 and assistant clerk from 1913 14. Political career Onslow had succeeded to his father s title in 1911 and he joined the army on the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and was mentioned in despatches three times. After the war, he was a Lord in Waiting from 1919 to 1920, a List of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1920 to 1921, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in 1921, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health from 1921 to 1923, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education from 1923 to 1924, Under Secretary of State for War and Vice President of the Army Council 1904 Army Council from 1924 to 192828 and Chairman of the Committees and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords from 1931 44. Onslow was also President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1905 to 1906 ref cite web url http www.rss.org.uk site cms contentviewarti ... more details
Infobox book name Up to Now image File Martin Shaw looking at a photo.JPG 150 px image caption Portrait of Martin Shaw from a series of photographs taken for the frontispiece of Up to Now author Martin Shaw composer Martin Shaw illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language series subject genre Autobiography publisher Oxford University Press pub date 1929 media type Hardback pages 218 isbn oclc 1377968 dewey congress preceded by followed by Up to Now is the autobiography of the British composer, conductor and theatre producer Martin Shaw composer Martin Shaw 1875 1958 . It was published by Oxford University Press in 1929, when Shaw was 53. His reminiscences cover the early period of his life, his family and upbringing, his early career working with Edward Gordon Craig Gordon Craig , Isadora Duncan and Ellen Terry , his marriage, and the development of his work in church music, especially his collaborations with Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams . ref name TAM Theatre Arts Monthly , Volume 14, No. 86, January 1930, p. 89 ref ref Atwell, Robert. http www.smvph.org.uk music the english hymnal.html The English Hymnal A Hundred Years On The View from Primrose Hill in Strengthen for Service 100 Years of the English Hymnal 1906 2006 , Alan Luff ed. . Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2005. reprinted with permission on smvph.org.uk ref The book contains many anecdotes, largely about Shaw s friends and colleagues in the theatre and music world but also ones relating to other prominent figures such as the British statesman Viscount Grey of Fallodon Viscount Grey . ref The Evening Post New Zealand Evening Post . http paperspast.natlib.govt.nz cgi bin paperspast?a d&d EP19300215.2.250.11 The Bookman A Good Recovery . Volume CIX, Issue 39, February 15, 1930, p. 21 ref Shaw s book was the first of two autobiographies published in 1929 with the title Up to Now . The second was by the American politician and four time List of Governors of New York Governor of New York , A ... more details
Sir Evelyn Grant Duff KCMG 9 October 1863 19 September 1926 was a British diplomat who was stationed in Iran at a key moment, and was ambassador to Switzerland. Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff was the second son of M. E. Grant Duff M.E. Grant Duff later Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff . He passed the Preliminary Examination for the Civil Services in 1883 ref http www.london gazette.co.uk issues 25277 pages 4879 The London Gazette, 12 October 1883 ref and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1888. ref http www.london gazette.co.uk issues 25825 pages 3188 The London Gazette, 8 June 1888 ref He served in Rome , Tehran , St Petersburg , Stockholm and Berlin before a post in London 1899 1903. He was Secretary of Legation, Tehran, 1903 06, ref http www.london gazette.co.uk issues 27598 pages 5783 The London Gazette, 18 September 1903 ref at the time of the Persian Constitutional Revolution during which, in the summer of 1906, approximately 12,000 men took sanctuary bast in the gardens of the British Legation in what has been called a vast open air school of political science studying constitutionalism. ref name Abrahamian Abrahamian, Ervand, Iran Between Two Revolutions , Princeton University Press, 1982, p.84 ref The Foreign Secretary, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Sir Edward Grey , was outraged by Grant Duff s hospitality towards the bastis which, however, inadvertently expedited the Constitutional Revolution. ref http www.iranicaonline.org articles great britain iv British influence in Persia, 1900 21 , Encyclopaedia Iranica , Online Edition, 23 February 2012 ref Grant Duff had already been appointed to be Councillor at the Embassy in Madrid ref http www.london gazette.co.uk issues 27915 pages 3568 The London Gazette, 22 May 1906 ref and he took up that post in late 1906. While in Madrid he negotiated the purchase of land at the corner of calle de N ez de Balboa and calle de Hermosilla for a British Embassy Church, although the building was not started until 1923 i ... more details
Eliza Courtney . After their return to England in September 1793 the child was taken to Fallodon ... SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 13 March 1764 PLACE OF BIRTH Fallodon , Rotherham , England DATE ... more details
Refimprove date February 2010 Lead rewrite date October 2011 please, just read the first paragraph and tell me the english couldn t be polished up a bit Infobox military conflict conflict First Moroccan Crisis partof date March 1905 May 1906 place Morocco image caption result Algeciras Conference Moroccan Police Forces founded under Spanish and French control combatant1 ubl flag German Empire flag Austria Hungary combatant2 ubl flagcountry UKGBI flagicon France French Third Republic France flag Russian Empire flagcountry Kingdom of Italy flagicon Spain 1785 Spain under the Restoration Spain commander1 ubl Bernhard von B low Wilhelm II, German Emperor commander2 ubl Maurice Rouvier Th ophile Delcass notes Scramble for Africa Overview The First Moroccan Crisis also known as the Tangier Crisis was an international crisis between March 1905 and May 1906 over the status of Morocco . German Empire Germany attempted to use the issue of Morocco s independence to increase frictions between France and England, as well as to advance German commercial interests in Morocco. They succeeded in their stated goal of assuring Moroccan independence, but failed to attract diplomatic support for their positions at the resulting international conference. The crisis worsened German relations with both France and England, and helped ensure the success of the new Anglo French Entente Cordiale . ref name Grey Grey of Fallodon, Twenty Five Years, vol. 1 pp49 52 ref It has been named as one of the Causes of World War I . Background German Chancellor Bernhard von B low was worried about the recently signed Entente Cordiale between United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Britain and French Third Republic France seeing it as an alliance that potentially threatened Germany. The British and French had until recently been involved in imperial rivalries in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Von B low calculated that Germany could provoke a minor crisis which would reveal the weakness of ties between ... more details
This is a list of ornithology ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also Category Ornithologists . A D Humayun Abdulali India Charles Edward Howard Aiken USA Horace Alexander United Kingdom UK , later USA Wilfred Backhouse Alexander United Kingdom UK Salim Ali ornithologist Salim Ali India Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi Italy Joel Asaph Allen USA Dean Amadon USA Jean Victoire Audouin France John James Audubon France, USA Oliver L. Austin USA John Bob USA Garry Richard Bagnell UK Spencer Fullerton Baird USA Luis Baptista Luis Felipe Baptista USA Phyllis Barclay Smith UK Richard Mancliffe Barrington Ireland Charles Bendire USA E. Alexander Bergstrom USA Thomas Bewick UK Eugene P. Bicknell USA Biswamoy Biswas India Johann Heinrich Blasius Germany Edward Blyth UK Charles Lucien Bonaparte France James Bond ornithologist James Bond USA Richard M. Bond USA Franco Andrea Bonelli Italy Christian Ludwig Brehm , Germany Thomas Mayo Brewer USA William Brewster ornithologist William Brewster USA Thomas Browne UK Early British amateur 17th C Walter Buller New Zealand John Cassin USA Frank Chapman ornithologist Frank Chapman USA Phillip Clancey South Africa Mary Anne Heimerdinger Clench USA Charles B. Cory USA Elliott Coues USA Reuthven Deane USA Elio Augusto Di Carlo Italy Charles Eus be Dionne CA Jean Dorst France Henry Eeles Dresser UK E H George Edwards naturalist George Edwards UK , the Father of British ornithology Elon Howard Eaton USA Eugene Eisenmann USA George Fenwick Ornithologist George Fenwick USA Otto Finsch Germany John W. Fitzpatrick USA Jon Fjelds Denmark Jim Flegg UK Kilian Frensch Germany Johan Dalgas Frisch Brazil William Gambel USA Heinrich Gaetke Germany Frank Gill ornithologist Frank Gill USA Theodore Gill USA Robert Gillmor UK Frederick DuCane Godman UK Derek Goodwin UK Philip Henry Gosse UK John Gould UK George Robert Gray UK John Edward Gray UK brother of the above Andrew Jackson Grayson USA Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of ... more details
Image Sergey Sazonov.jpg thumb 310px Sergei D. Sazonov. Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov Grand Cross in the Order of the Bath GCB Russian , 10 August 1860 spaced ndash 25 December 1927 was a Russian statesman who served as Foreign Minister from September 1910 to June 1916. The degree of his involvement in the events leading up to the outbreak of World War I is a matter of keen debate, with some historians putting the blame for an early and provocative mobilization squarely on Sazonov s shoulders, and others maintaining that his chief preoccupation was to reduce the temperature of international relations, especially in the Balkans . ref name Bourne John M. Bourne. Who s Who in World War One . Routledge, 2001. ISBN 0415141796. Page 259. ref Early career Of lesser noble background, Sazonov was the brother in law of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin who did his best to further Sazonov s career. Having graduated from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum Alexander Lyceum , Sazonov served in the London embassy, and the diplomatic mission to the Holy See Vatican , of which he became the chief in March 1906. On 26 June 1909 Sazonov was recalled to St. Petersburg and appointed Assistant Foreign Minister. Before long he replaced Alexander Izvolsky as Foreign Minister and continued along the lines laid down by his predecessor. Foreign Minister Potsdam Agreement Just before he was officially appointed foreign minister, Sazonov attended a meeting between Nicholas II of Russia and Wilhelm II of Germany in Potsdam on 4 6 November 1910. This move was intended to chastise the British for their perceived betrayal of Russia s interests during the Bosnian crisis . Indeed, Britain s Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Foreign Secretary was seriously alarmed by this token of a German Russian D tente . ref name Siegel Siegel, Jennifer. Endgame Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia . I.B. Tauris, 2002. ISBN 1850433712. Pages 90 92. ref The two monarchs discussed ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 Grey is a relatively rare ref In 2002 the surname Gray was more than ten times more popular in England and Wales Office of National Statistics ref surname. It may refer to A F Agnes Grey , novel by Anne Bront Al Grey 1925 2000 , American jazz trombonist with Count Basie Alan Grey rower , a former New Zealand rower Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey 1851 1917 , British politician, Governor General of Canada Alex Grey b.1953 , American artist Allan Grey, a character from A Streetcar Named Desire play A Streetcar Named Desire Anchitell Grey 1624 1702 , Parliamentary diarist and MP for Derby Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton 1536 1593 , British soldier, Lord Deputy of Ireland Aubrey de Grey b.1963 , English writer on gerontology Brad Grey Catherine Grey 1540 1568 , Countess of Hertford, younger sister of Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey 1729 1807 , British General, C in C British troops in America Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey 1764 1845 , British politician, Prime Minister and statesman, gave his name to a brand of aromatic tea Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey 1879 1963 Cordelia Grey , fictional character Dahlia Grey aka Jami Dion, Penthouse pet March 1992 Daniel Grey 1848 1900 , Welsh international footballer David Grey , American poker player Deborah Grey b.1952 , Canadian politician Earl Grey , Earl Grey tea see Charles Grey above Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent 1416 1490 , administrator and magnate Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon 1862 1933 , British statesman, later Ambassador to USA Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville 1655 1701 G M George Grey Sir George Grey 1812 1898 , soldier, explorer, writer, Governor of South Australia, New Zealand, Cape Colony South Africa , New Zealand 2nd time Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet Sir George Grey 1799 1882 , 2nd Baronet, British politician Henry de Grey d.1219 , English magnate Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk 1517 1554 , English magnate Henry Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Groby 154 ... more details
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