| 词条 | Sydney Waterlow (diplomat) |
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Sir Sydney Philip Perigal Waterlow (22 October 1878, New Barnet - 4 December 1944, Oare, Wiltshire) was a British diplomat, Ambassador to Greece from 1933 to 1939. LifeSydney Waterlow was the eldest son of George Sydney Waterlow - the fourth son of Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet - and Charlotte Elizabeth Beauchamp. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class in the Classics Tripos (B.A. 1900, M.A. 1905).[1] Waterlow joined the Diplomatic Service in 1900. From 1900 to 1901 he served in the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. He was an Attaché in Washington in 1901, and Third Secretary from 1902 to 1905. Resigning from the Foreign Office, Waterlow left the Foreign Office to become a University extension lecturer until the outbreak of World War I, when he returned to the FO. He rose to be Acting First Secretary in 1919, and participated in the Paris Peace Conference. From 1922 to 1924 he was Director of the Foreign division of the Department of Overseas Trade, and from 1924 to 1926 he was a Counsellor in the Foreign Office. He was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Bangkok from 1924 to 1926, in Addis from 1928-9, in Sofia from 1929 to 1933, and in Athens from 1933 to 1939.[1] Waterlow was also an author, editor and translator of several literary and classical works. He married twice: in 1902 to Alice Isabella Pollock, the only daughter of Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet, and in 1913 to Helen Margery Eckhard, a daughter of Gustav Eckhard of Didsbury. In 1920 Waterlow was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1935 appointed as a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Waterlow was also appointed to the Legion of Honour. He died 4 December 1944 at Oare near Marlborough.[1] Works
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