Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock
From Freepedia
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.
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.
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 |
