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Sir Claude MacDonald, c. 1900

MacDonald was educated at Uppingham School and Sandhurst, and was a soldier-diplomat. He thought of himself as a 'soldier-outsider' as regards the Foreign Office. He presided over the Tokyo Legation in years of harmony between Britain and Japan (1900-12), swapping posts with Sir Ernest Satow who replaced him as Minister in Peking. In 1900 MacDonald had led the defence of the foreign legations which were under siege during the Boxer Rebellion, and worked well with the Anglophile Japanese Colonel Shiba. On January 30, 1902 the first Anglo-Japanese Alliance was signed in London between the Foreign Secretary Lord Lansdowne and Hayashi Tadasu, the Japanese Minister. MacDonald was still in Tokyo when the alliance was renewed in 1905 and 1911. He also became Britain's first ambassador to Japan when the status of the legation was raised to an embassy in 1905, and was made a Privy Councillor in 1906. Download high resolution version (395x604, 57 KB)Sir Claude Macdonald, scanned from 1900 book This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (395x604, 57 KB)Sir Claude Macdonald, scanned from 1900 book This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Uppingham School is an English public school in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland. ... The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (commonly known as Sandhurst) is the British Army officer training centre. ... Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō  listen, literally eastern capital), is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu in Japan. ... Sir Ernest Mason Satow, G.C.M.G., P.C. (1843-1929), a British scholar-diplomat born to an ethnically German father (Hans David Christoph Satow, born in Swedish-occupied Wismar, naturalised British in 1846) and an English mother (Margaret, nee Mason) in Clapton, North London, and educated at Mill... Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking), is the capital city of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Boxer forces in Tianjin The Boxer Rebellion (Traditional Chinese: 義和團起義; Simplified Chinese: 义和团起义; pinyin: ) was an uprising against Western commercial and political influence in China during the final years of the 19th century. ... The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance was signed in London on January 30, 1902 by Lord Lansdowne (British foreign secretary) and Hayashi Tadasu (Japanese minister in London). ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE (14 January 1845 - 3 June 1927) was a British politician and Irish peer who served as Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. ... Count Hayashi Tadasu (1850-1913) studied in England with Kikuchi Dairoku at University College School, 1866-68, being one of fourteen young Japanese sent by the Tokugawa shogunate. ... For other uses, see Ambassador (disambiguation). ... This article concerns the British Sovereigns Privy Council. ...

See also

• Heads of the United Kingdom Mission in Japan
• Historic list of members of the Privy Council

The following is a chronological list of British heads of mission (ministers and ambassadors) in Japan, 1859–2004. ... These are lists of Privy Counsellors of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the reorganisation of the Privy Council in 1679 to the present day. ...

References

• 'Sir Claude MacDonald: Minister and first Ambassador in Tokyo', by Ian Nish, Ch.9, British Envoys in Japan 1859-1972, ed. and compiled by Hugh Cortazzi (Global Oriental, 2004) ISBN 1901903516