Evelyn Grant Duff

Sir Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff KCMG (* October 9, 1863; † 19 September 1926 in Bath) was a British diplomat.

Life

Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff was a son of ME Grant Duff, a governor of the Madras ( Presidency). Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff was the brother of Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff and Adrian Grant Duff ( born September 29, 1869), who was killed in combat on 14 September 1914. Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff joined the Foreign Service in 1888 and was sent to Rome. From 1892 to 1894 he learned Farsi in Tehran. He was then successively worked in St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Berlin and London.

In August 1902, Muzaffar al-Din Shah on a state visit to London was, and was accompanied by Duff. Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst was entrusted with the protocol of the state visit. Victoria had taken Naser ad-Din Shah on June 26, 1873 in the Order of the Garter. Edward VII refused to accept a Muslim in the Order of the Garter and forbade instructions which he excels. On December 12, 1902 Muzaffar al-Din Shah was picked up by a special statute in the Order of the Garter. In January 1903 Duff, Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe accompanied her on a special mission to Tehran, where Muzaffar al-Din Shah was auszuzeichnet on February 16, 1903 the Order of the Garter, to arouse the jealousy of Constantine Opel and the resentment of Japan.

Even in 1903 Duff secretary of legation in Teheran where he acted as chargé d'affaires from September 1905 to September 1906. During his tenure, the Constitutional Revolution began. While the Russian embassy supported the conservative monarchists, supported the British embassy supporters of a constitutional monarchy. From mid-July to August 5, 1906 examined 14,000 Persians on the British embassy premises refuge.

From late 1906 to 1910 Grant Duff was busy in Madrid. In 1910 he was appointed ambassador to Caracas, he did not join this mission but to. From 1911 to 1913 he was Consul General in Budapest in Austria - Hungary. From 1913 to 1916 he was Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne, Switzerland.

On March 27, 1900, he married Edith Florence Bonham (* January 12, 1877, † May 30 1937 ). Mrs. Grand Duff founded in Bern, the "British Legation Red Cross Organization" and sat the Bureau de Secours aux prisonniers de Guerre (British Section) before.

In 1913 he was made a Knight and resigned in August 1916 due to illness from his post as British Ambassador in Bern back.