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Sir John Victor Thomas Woolrych Tait Perowne KCMG KStJ FSA (30 July 1897 – 8 January 1951) was a British diplomat.
Career
The son of Edith Marione (née Browne) and John Thomas Woolrych Perowne who married in 1896, John Victor Thomas Woolrych Tait Perowne was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He served in the Scots Guards 1916–18 with the rank of lieutenant, and contributed a poem "A Dirge" to The Muse in Arms, an anthology of British war poetry.
Perowne joined the Diplomatic Service and served in Madrid, Lisbon, Copenhagen and Paris as well as posts in the Foreign Office before being appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See in 1947. He died in office in Rome in 1951.
Victor Perowne was appointed CMG in 1944 and knighted KCMG in 1950.
Personal life
Victor Perowne listed his recreations in Who's Who as "Art, music, literature". He married the Hon. Agatha Beaumont, youngest daughter of Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale, in 1933; they had one son, John Florian Canning (1942-2000),and one daughter, Rachel Penelope (1938-1940).
See also
External links
- Works by Victor Perowne at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
| Diplomatic posts | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded bySir D'Arcy Osborne | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See 1947 – 1951 |
Succeeded bySir Walter Roberts |
References
- PEROWNE, Sir John Victor Thomas Woolrych Tait, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 19 March 2012
- Sir Victor Perowne, photo in "UK in Holy See's photostream" on flickr.com
- Prose & Poetry - The Muse in Arms - A Dirge at FirstWorldWar.com
- Sir Victor Perowne's Funeral, The Catholic Herald, London, 19 January 1951
- 1897 births
- 1951 deaths
- People educated at Eton College
- Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Holy See
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Knights of the Order of St John
- Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome