AMBASSADOR’S CAREER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 9

AMBASSADOR’S CAREER.

ENTERED FOREIGN OFFICE IN 1908. Sir Hughe Knatclibull-Hugessen is 52 years old, and was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. His father was Rev. It. 13. KnatchbullHugessen, a brother of the fourth Lord Brabourne, and his mother a daughter of Sir Alexander Montgomery. Entering the Foreign Office in 1908 as a clerk, Sir Hughe was appointed a temporary attache to the Embassy at Constantinople a year later. Returning to the Foreign Office in 1911, he was one of the officials in attendance on foreign representatives at the Coronation oi King George After serving in the World War, Sir Hughe was given the rank of Second Secretary, and appointed a member of the British diplomatic staff at the Paris Pence Conference in January, 1919. At the end of that year he was appointed First Secretary at the legation at The Hague. After being acting-Minister there for several periods, he was transferred to the Paris Embassy in 1923. As First Secretary he was kept for months busily occupied with details of the German reparations and other post-war problems, which were holding Paris, London and Berlin in a state of tension. Raised to the rank of Counsellor. ho was appointed to Brussels in 1926, and was frequently in full charge of the Legation until 1930. when he was made Minister to the Baltic States. In 1934 Sir Hughe was transferred to Iran, and in January. 1936, received his knighthood. He has been Ambassador to China since February, 1936.