Hugh MacDonell
Sir Hugh Guion MacDonell GCMG CB PC (5 March 1832 – 25 January 1904) was a British diplomat who was envoy to Brazil, Denmark and Portugal.
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Career
MacDonell attended Royal Military College, Sandhurst, then joined the Rifle Brigade[1] and served in British Kaffraria 1849–52. He left the army in 1853 and joined the diplomatic service. He was attaché at Florence, then Constantinople, then Copenhagen. He was secretary of legation at Buenos Aires, then Madrid, and secretary of embassy at Berlin 1875–78[2] and at Rome 1878–82.[3] He was chargé d'affaires at Munich 1882–85, then Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil 1885–88,[4] to Denmark 1888–93,[5] and to Portugal 1893–1902.[6]
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The outbreak of war between Great Britain and the two South African republics in October 1899 raised some very difficult and delicate questions between Britain and Portugal, whose port at Delagoa Bay was directly connected with the Transvaal by rail and was the principal, if not the only, channel for supplies and external communications when access through the British colonies had been closed. MacDonell's management of the discussions on these subjects was tactful and conciliatory, and contributed in no small degree to the maintenance of cordial relations.
— Dictionary of National Biography
Honours
MacDonell was appointed CB in 1890,[7] knighted KCMG in 1892[8] and raised to GCMG in 1899.[9] He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1902.[10]
Sources
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- MACDONELL, Rt Hon. Sir Hugh Guion, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2014 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
References
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 20929. p. 4625. 22 December 1848.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 24173. p. 249. 22 January 1875.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 24583. p. 3177. 21 May 1878.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25533. p. 5413. 24 November 1885.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25785. p. 893. 10 February 1888.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26362. p. 137. 10 January 1893.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26053. p. 2965. 20 May 1890.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26292. p. 3141. 27 May 1892.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27091. p. 3865. 20 June 1899.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27464. p. 5174. 12 August 1902.
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