LORD CARNOCK DEAD.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19461, 7 November 1928, Page 10

LORD CARNOCK DEAD.

ifr-> —r- ,v» AN ENGLISH DIPLOMAT.

(trsiTßß press AS6d<SA4iotf—is* itiifitfiiti (Received November 6th, 7.25 p.m.) ; LONDON» November 5. Lord Carfiock, formerly khown aS Sir Arthur. Nicholson, died suddenly of heart failure in Lohddti t&day, at the age tit 7tit He had A distinguished cttreef in thd ,l)itjlOindtie SfitViee. .fclfe was Minister ift Mflraefid frtufi 1395 tb 1904, atid then for a short tirUe tfoß Ambassador at Madrid; Hfe acted ab Aftbassadoi 1 to Russia ft>ou 1906 to 1910, when he cam# Htiinti to jtetHjttife Permanent Under-Secretary fa* foreigfi Affairs. He . retired in 1916 and received a peerage. •Lord CarnocU waß specially distin l guished for his Services in connexion rtrith the AngloJJY&tich and AHg!o-<tluß» siati Ehtefltes. He attfiflded th£ Alge* eiras Conference, and later beottrti thfc instrument in preventing Clefmftii dip> lomacy in splitting the Young Entente. He sitrjilaHy SUccfied&d, #h€ii Afflbtosador to Russia, in removing old l»fitag<onisms relating to Persia and Afghanistan.

He possessed a glagttlar utidlerStfttid'mg of the mentality, and was the outstanding representative of the old pchool of diplomacy.— "The Times" Cables.

[Lord Carneck Was created the first Baron oil his retirement from the Per* inanent TJnder>Sebretarjtehip for Foreign Affairs in I§l6. He held diplomatic posts at Befliii, Peking. Coflstantinople, Athens, Teherah, Budapest, Bulgaria, and Mbrodoo pmU ous to being aopointed AinbaSSadof at Madrid in l§o4 and Ambassador- td Russia in 1905, The Important iHtftfnatronfl! conference dn Moroccan affoirt Which resulted in aft agreement b* tweep France and Germany, fras held at Algecirnij jn 10(16.]