Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock

Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock (1849 - 1928), educated at Rugby and Oxford, was a British diplomat and politician through the last quarter of the 19th century to the middle of World War I. 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... A view of Rugby School from the rear, including the playing field, where according to legend Rugby football was invented Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby in Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in the United Kingdom and is perhaps the leading co-educational boarding school... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

Career summary

• Foreign Office, 1870-74;
• Author of the History of the German Constitution, 1873.
• Secretary to Earl Granville, 1872-74;
• Embassy at Berlin, 1874-76;
• at Peking, 1876-78;
• Chargé, Athens, 1884-85;
• Teheran, 1885-88;
• Consul-General, Budapest, 1888-93;
• Embassy, Constantinople, 1894;
• Minister, Morocco, 1895-1904;
• Ambassador, Madrid, 1904-5;
• Ambassador, Russia, 1905-10;
• Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1910-16.

Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (May 11, 1815 - March 31, 1891) was a British Liberal statesman. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking), is the capital city of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ... Tehran (also spelled Teheran) (تهران in Persian), population 8,000,000 (metropolitan: 10,000,000), is the capital of Iran and one of the major world cities. ... Budapest (pronounced or ), the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre, has more than 1. ... Map of Constantinople. ... Plaza de Cibeles (Cibeles square) and the Palacio de Comunicaciones (Communications Palace) Coat of arms. ...

External links

• The Mirrors of Downing Street, 1921, by Harold Begbie, at Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. ...

Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (20 June 1858 - 2 August 1944) was a British diplomat and statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916. ... This is a list of Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs in the British Foreign Office since 1782. ... Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (20 June 1858 - 2 August 1944) was a British diplomat and statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916. ...

Baron Carnock is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ...