BRITISH AMBASSADOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 7

BRITISH AMBASSADOR.

REPRESENTATIVE IN BERLIN. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, February 4. Reports that Herr von Ribbentrop, German An»bassador to Britain, had influenced members of the Government against Mr. Anthony Eden and that this was responsible for Sir Eric Pliipps being transfered to Paris from Berlin, are authoritatively denied. The diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that Sir Nevile Mevrick Henderson is to succeed Sir Eric Pliipps.

Sir Nevile Henderson was born at Sedgwick Park, Horsham, Sussex, and educated at Eton. Passing for the diplomatic service in 1905, he was sent in the same year to Petrograd as third secretary to the Embassy. There in the

next three years he saw much of the revolutionary events which followed the Russo-Japanese war arad led to the institution of the first JRussian Parliament.

Transferred to Tokyo in 1909, Sir Nevile was there untnl 1912 when he returned to Petrogrp*!. At the outbreak of the Great War he was at the Rome Embassy, l»nt in 1915 was recalled to the Foreign Office where he served for a year until appointed first secretary in Paris.

He later served at Constantinople and Cairo before goi«j» to Paris in 1928 as Minister Pleiiipoteniary—an office peculiar to the I?aris Embassy and ranking next to thart of the Ambassador. A year later he«' was made Minister in Belgra,de. 1932 he was knighted (K.C.M.G.). .