OBITUARY.
SIR MORTIMER DURAND. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 10. (Received June 10, at 8 p.m.) The death is announced of Sir Mortimer Durand. —A. and N.Z. Cable. Sir Mortimer Durand was horn in 1850. Ho entered the Bengal civil service in 18(3, and was political secretary to the late Earl Roberts during the Kabul campaign of 1879. From 1884 to 1894 ho was Foreign Secretary in India, and in 1895 he conducted a mission to the Emir of Afghanistan. Among other diplomatic appointments which ho held were the offices of Minister at Teheran (1894-1900), Ambassador and Consul-General at Madrid (19001&05), and Ambassador at Washington (1903-1906). He was created G.C.M.G. in 1900, and was called to the Privy Council in 1901.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19195, 11 June 1924, Page 7
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