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He served as the British controller-general in Egypt during 1879, part of the international control which oversaw Egyptian finances after the Egyptian bankruptcy of 1876. He later became the agent and consul-general in Egypt from 1883 to 1907 during the British occupation, prompted by the Urabi revolt. This position gave Baring de facto control ...
Wood, drawn in 1844 by Godfrey Thomas Vigne. Sir Richard Wood GCMG CB (1806 – 31 July 1900) was a British dragoman and consul in Constantinople, Damascus, and Tunis.. Wood's career spanned more than forty years of the Eastern question period, when the Ottoman Empire was in decline and the British were gaining power in the Middle East and North Africa.
There was no Consul-General during World War I since the UK was an enemy of the Ottoman Empire. After the war and until 1948, Palestine was a British mandate territory, with District Commissioners. [1] 1948–1951: Sir Hugh Dow [2] 1951–1953: Herbert R. Gybbon-Monypenny [2] 1957–1959: Andrew C. Stewart [2] 1959–1962: James M. Walsh [2]
John Temple (1731 – 17 November 1798) was the first British consul-general to the United States and the first British diplomat to have been born in what later became the United States. He was sometimes known as (but not universally acknowledged to be) Sir John Temple, 8th Baronet.
British take control of Egypt after a war (although it remains nominally part of Ottoman Empire). 1883: United Kingdom–Korea Treaty of 1883 is signed. 1883–1907: Lord Cromer rules Egypt as consul general [111] 1885: The Panjdeh incident causes a war scare with Russia.
At the 1814 Congress of Vienna, Genoa became part of the Kingdom of Sardinia.Britain continued to appoint Consuls to the city. 1840–1857: Timothy Yeats Brown Consul-General [13] [14] [15]
He first went to Istanbul in June 1845 to serve as secretary to his half-brother Abraham Carleton Cumberbatch, who had been promoted from Vice Consul to Consul General there on 3 May 1845. [3] Cumberbatch served as Acting Second Consul from May 1855 to June 1856, then as third Vice Consul until September 1857. [ 4 ]
On Tonga, a British protectorate from 1900, the British Empire was only represented by its consuls from 1901 until Tongan independence in 1970. From 1901 until 1952, the protectorate was also under the administrative authority of the High Commissioner of the British Western Pacific Territories , who was always the British Governor of Fiji .