| 词条 | Arthur Grant Duff |
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Sir Arthur Cuninghame Grant Duff, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG}} (23 May 1861 – 11 April 1948) was a British diplomat who was Minister to several countries. CareerArthur Cuninghame Grant Duff was the eldest son of M.E. Grant Duff (later Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff). He was educated at Clifton College[1] and Balliol College, Oxford. He entered HM Diplomatic Service in 1865 and was posted as attaché to the embassy in Madrid. After serving in Vienna, Stockholm and Peking he was recalled to London in 1897 and spent three years working at the Foreign Office. He then began a succession of short appointments in Caracas, as Second Secretary at Berne, Secretary of Legation in Mexico from September 1902,[2][3] Caracas again, Mexico again, Stockholm again, and Brussels. In some of those postings he was Chargé d'affaires in the absence of the minister or ambassador. In 1906 he was appointed chargé d'affaires at Darmstadt and Karlsruhe (then the capitals of the Grand Duchies of Hesse and Baden respectively),[4] but after only six months he was sent to Havana as Minister to Cuba.[5] In the summer of 1909 he returned to Europe and the courts of minor German states, combining the roles of Minister Resident at Dresden (Kingdom of Saxony) and at Coburg (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) and Chargé d'Affaires at Waldeck-Pyrmont.[6] He remained there until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 when he returned to London to work in Admiralty Intelligence until 1919. After the war, Grant Duff was Minister to Peru and Ecuador 1920–23,[7] to Chile 1923–24,[8] and to Sweden 1924–27.[9] He retired in 1927 after 42 years' service. Arthur Grant Duff was knighted KCMG in the King's Birthday Honours of 1924 at the end of his service in Chile.[10] The Swedish government awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of the North.[11] FamilyIn 1906 Arthur Grant Duff married Kathleen, younger daughter of General Powell Clayton, who had been U.S. Ambassador to Mexico when Grant Duff was posted there. She died in 1963. References
1. ^"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p51: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948 2. ^{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=Diplomatic appointments|day_of_week=Wednesday |date=27 August 1902 |page_number=7 |issue=36857| }} 3. ^{{London Gazette|issue= 27473|date=12 September 1902 |page=5888}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=27891 |page=1513 |date=12 January 1906}} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=27951 |page=6403 |date=21 September 1906}} 6. ^{{London Gazette |issue=28271 |page=5462 |date=16 July 1909}} 7. ^{{London Gazette |issue=32057 |page=9364 |date=21 September 1920}} 8. ^{{London Gazette |issue=32789 |page=523 |date=23 February 1923}} 9. ^New Minister to Stockholm, The Times, London, 11 July 1924, page 13 10. ^{{London Gazette |issue=32941 |supp=y |page=4410 |date=3 June 1924}} 11. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33385 |page=501 |date=18 May 1928}} Offices held{{s-start}}{{s-dip}}{{succession box|title=Minister Resident to the Republic of Cuba, and His Majesty's Consul-General for that Republic |years=1906–1909 |before=Lionel Carden |after=Stephen Leech }}{{succession box |title=Minister Resident at the Courtsof Saxony and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Chargé d'Affaires at Arolsen for Waldeck and Pyrmont |years=1909–1914 |before=Mansfeldt Findlay |after=(no representation) }}{{succession box |title=Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Peru and Ecuador |years=1920–1923 |before=Ernest Rennie |after=Lord Herbert Hervey }}{{succession box |title=Envoy Extraordinary andMinister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile |years=1923–1924 |before=Tudor Vaughan |after=Sir Thomas Hohler }}{{succession box |title=Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of Sweden |years=1924–1927 |before=Colville Barclay |after=Sir Tudor Vaughan }}{{s-end}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Grant Duff, Arthur Cuninghame}} 11 : 1861 births|1948 deaths|People educated at Clifton College|Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford|Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Cuba|Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Peru|Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Ecuador|Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Chile|Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Sweden|Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George|Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star |
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