Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock

Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KCIE (* September 19, 1849; † November 5, 1928 ) was a British diplomat and politician.

Family

Nicolson was the eldest son of Admiral Sir Frederick Nicolson, 10th Baronet, and his wife Mary hole.

He married in 1882 Mary Katherine Hamilton. With her he had three sons:

Life and work

Nicolson came in 1870 in the British diplomatic service, after it had been formed previously at Rugby School and at the University of Oxford. On various activities in the Foreign Office in London - among other things as private secretary to Lord Granville - to 1874 was followed by positions at the British Embassies in Berlin ( 1874-1876 ) and Beijing ( 1876-1878 ), before he went in 1884 as a British representative to Athens. After spending three years in Tehran (1885-1888) Nicolson was finally appointed to the British Consul General in Budapest ( 1888-1893 ). Afterwards, he worked briefly at the British representative in Constantinople Opel (1894 ) before he stayed from 1895 to 1904 as a British representative in Morocco. In 1899 he inherited when his father died his baronetcy.

1904 sent him the Balfour government as British Ambassador to Spain after Madrid and then from 1905 to 1910 as British Ambassador to Russia to Saint Petersburg.

From 1910 until his death in 1928 served as a tenured Nicolson Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs of the first and second government under Asquith Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey.

1916 Nicolson was raised as Baron Carnock, of Carnock in the County of Stirling, in the peerage. After his death, the title of Baron passed to his son Frederick Archibald Nicolson.

Works

• History of the German Constitution, 1873.