Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock
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Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock (1849 - 1928), educated at Rugby and Oxford, was a British diplomat and politician through the last quarter of the 19th century to the middle of World War I.
Lord Carnock's sons included Sir Harold Nicolson, the writer and husband of Vita Sackville-West.
[edit] Career summary
- Foreign Office, 1870-74;
- Author of the History of the German Constitution, 1873.
- Secretary to Earl Granville, 1872-74;
- Embassy at Berlin, 1874-76;
- at Peking, 1876-78;
- Chargé, Athens, 1884-85;
- Teheran, 1885-88;
- Consul-General, Budapest, 1888-93;
- Embassy, Constantinople, 1894;
- Minister, Morocco, 1895-1904;
- Ambassador, Madrid, 1904-5;
- Ambassador, Russia, 1905-10;
- Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1910-16.
[edit] External links
- The Mirrors of Downing Street, 1921, by Harold Begbie, at Project Gutenberg
| Preceded by The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst |
Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs 1910–1916 |
Succeeded by The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst |
| Preceded by New Creation |
Baron Carnock | Succeeded by Frederick Archibald Nicolson |
