Alvary Gascoigne
Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne GBE, KCMG (6 August 1893 – 18 April 1970) was a British diplomat.[1]
Early life
Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne was born on 6 August 1893. He was the son of Colonel Frederick Richard Thomas Trench-Gascoigne and Laura Gwendolen Douglas Galton.[2]
He married Sylvia Wilder in 1916; and two children were born from that union:
- Douglas Wilder Trench-Gascoigne (11 November 1917–August 1944)[2]
- Yvonne Studd-Trench-Gascoigne (5 May 1919 – 17 January 1973)[2]
His first marriage ended in divorce in 1935; and he remarried in the same year to Lorna Priscilla Leatham.[2]
On the death of his father in 1937,[3] he inherited Lotherton Hall, which was the ancestral home of the Gascoigne baronets.[4]
Career
Gascoigne began military service in the First World War as a Second Lieutenant in the cavalry dragoons.[5] In 1915, he was transferred to the Coldstream Guards (Royal Field Artillery).[6]
Gascoigne's career as a diplomat lasted from 1921 through 1953.[2] In 1925, he was appointed as Second Secretary in the Foreign Office;[7] and he was promoted to First Secretary in 1933.[8]
In August 1939, Gascoigne was named Consul-General for the Tangier Zone and the Spanish Zone of the Protectorate of Morocco, to reside at Tangier.[9]
In August 1941, Gascoigne was promoted to the diplomatic rank of embassy Counsellor.[10]
Gascoigne was the British "Political Representative" in Japan from 1946 through 1951.[11] In 1947 when he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.[12] He left Tokyo in 1951.[13]
Sir Alvary was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Moscow on 18 October, 1951.[14] In December 1951, he was honored as Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.[15]
Later years
Sir Alvary lived in retirement at Lotherton Hall. In 1968, he presented the Hall and grounds to Leeds City Council.[16] He died on 18 April 1970 at age 76; and the London Gazette published a notice of Sir Alvary's death.[1]
Honours
- Order of St Michael and St George, Knight Commander (KCMG), 1947.[12]
- Order of St Michael and St George. Knight Grand Cross (GCMG), 1952.[15]
- Order of the British Empire, Knight Grand Cross (GBE).[15]
See also
- List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Japan
- List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Russia
- Anglo-Japanese relations
Notes
- ^ a b Lundy, Darryl. "Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne, ID#34634". The Peerage.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ^ a b c d e Lundy, Darryl. "ID#34634". The Peerage.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - ^ "No. 34438". The London Gazette. 24 September 1937.; "No. 34509". The London Gazette. 10 May 1938.
- ^ Leeds City Council, Lotherton Hall
- ^ "No. 28791". The London Gazette. 9 January 1914.; "No. 28947". The London Gazette. 20 October 1914.
- ^ "No. 31256". The London Gazette. 28 March 1919.
- ^ "No. 33050". The London Gazette. 26 May 1925.
- ^ "No. 33983". The London Gazette. 3 October 1933.
- ^ "No. 34711". The London Gazette. 17 November 1939.
- ^ "No. 35414". The London Gazette. 9 January 1942.
- ^ Hoare, James. (1999). Embassies in the East: the Story of the British Embassies in Japan, China, and Korea from 1859 to the Present, p. 214., p. 214, at Google Books
- ^ a b "No. 38161". The London Gazette. 30 December 1947.; 3rd grade "No. 38262". The London Gazette. 16 April 1948.; 2nd grade "No. 38952". The London Gazette. 23 June 1950.
- ^ UK Hansard, HC Deb 21 March 1951 vol 485 cc2413-4; retrieved 2011-05-18
- ^ "No. 39513". The London Gazette. 11 April 1952.
- ^ a b c "No. 39732". The London Gazette. 30 December 1952.
- ^ Leodis, Lotherton Hall, Sir Alvary Gascoigne; retrieved 2011-05-18
References
- Hoare, James. (1999). Embassies in the East: the Story of the British Embassies in Japan, China, and Korea from 1859 to the Present. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press. ISBN 9780700705122; OCLC 42645589
External links
- UK in Japan, Chronology of Heads of Mission