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'•;'" ; ' ("The. Times.") "_"• (Rec, August-.lSj' 11.35 p.m.).; . ' ' London,' August. 18. I. Lord Redesdale is'dead.' "■ '■" "*-■" . . [Algernon Be'rtr'am-'FfeeTnaa-Mitfo'r'd', ■ first Baronßedesdale,.treated.in'l9o2,' was born, in February,-1837, and married Lady Clementine '"Gertrude Helen Ogilvy,'daughter of the Earl of "Airlie,in 1874'- Ho entered the Foreign Office in 1858, was tliifd Secretary of Embassy,' St. Petersburg'in 1863;. appointed to Peking in 1865,-transferred'to' Japan, in 1866; second/Secretary "of Legation, 1868; Secretary fo H.M.'s Office of Work's,'•lß7^-86';'accompanied H.Pv.Hi- Prince Arthur's mission 'to Japan, 1906';' M.K for ' South-West Warwickshire, 1892-95;' member, of a Royal Commission on Civil Services," ISS7; trustee of- Wallace- Collection,' and a.'Trustee'of the National Gallery. He was'the- author: of several works, including-"Talcs'of Old Japan," "The Bamboo Garden," "The' Attache at Peking,"" "The Garter Mission to Japan," and "A Tragedy "in Stone," wh.ioh was'published iir'lol2.] .■" '. ■'•
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2854, 19 August 1916, Page 9
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127OBITUARY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2854, 19 August 1916, Page 9
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