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Revision as of 09:21, 16 January 2013 by StAnselm (talk | contribs) (Removed what I can only assume is an error - from "Harry Lionel Churchill, HM Consul General" perhaps?)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Harry Lionel Churchilll C.M.G. (1860-1924) was a Physician and British diplomat.
Family and early life
He was the son of Henry Adrian Churchill (1828–1886) who was an archaeologist and British diplomat, and Countess Maria Braniefska (b. Warsaw 1839? - d. Rio de Janiero 1905).
Two of his younger brothers, Sidney John Alexander (1860-1924) and William Algernon (1865-1947), were also diplomats.
Career
in 1883, at the age of 23, he served as British Vice-Consul as Translator and Clerk to her Majesty’s Legation in Teheran, then Consul in Zanzibar (1885), and Teheran (1891), then Vice-Consul in Trieste (1899), then Consul-General in Le Havre (1907-1923), and Genoa (1923) where he died in office aged 64.
His correspondence with Lord Hardinge, first secretary at Tehran and later Viceroy of India, is held in Cambridge University Library.
Gallery
- Family tree of John Churchill of Exeter showing Sidney J. A. Churchill's ancestry. Family tree of John Churchill of Exeter showing Sidney J. A. Churchill's ancestry.
References
- ^ Family tree of John Churchill of Exeter (?-c1758)
- The London Gazette - 2 October 1883
- The London Gazette - 21 May 1885
- The London Gazette - 28 July 1891
- The London Gazette - 25 January 1899
- The London Gazette - 5 June 1907
- The London Gazette - 19 July 1923
- Levantine Testimony
- letters to Lord Hardinge