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Edgar Vincent D’Abernon
EDGAR VINCENT, 1ST VISCOUNT D’ABERNON, GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS (19 August 1857 - 1 November 1941) was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author. The youngest son of Sir Frederick Vincent,...mehr sehenEDGAR VINCENT, 1ST VISCOUNT D’ABERNON, GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS (19 August 1857 - 1 November 1941) was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author. The youngest son of Sir Frederick Vincent, 11th Baronet, of Stoke D’Abernon (1798-1883), he was born at Slinfold, West Sussex and educated at Eton College. He spent five years as a member of the Coldstream Guards before coming into the service as secretary to Lord Edmond FitzMaurice, Queen’s Commissioner on the East Rumelian Question. He was appointed Commissioner for the Evacuation of Thessaly, advised the Egyptian government on financial matters from 1883-1889, and became governor of the Imperial Ottoman Bank. From 1899-1906 he was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Exeter. In 1914 he was raised to the peerage as Baron D’Abernon of Esher, Surrey, served as British Ambassador to Berlin from 1920-1925, and was elevated to Viscount D’Abernon, of Esher and Stoke d’Abernon in the county of Surrey, in 1926. He succeeded his elder brother as 16th Baronet of Stoke d’Abernon in 1936. After his retirement from the foreign service, D’Abernon devoted his time to directorships of numerous domestic organisations. He was married to Helen Venetia Duncombe. As the couple were childless, his title became extinct when he died in Hove in 1941, aged 84.weniger sehen