Fairfax Leighton Cartwright

Sir Fairfax Leighton Cartwright of Anyhoe (* July 20, 1857; † January 9, 1928 ) was a British diplomat.

Life

Fairfax Cartwright was born in 1857 as the second son of the parliamentarian William Cornwallis Cartwright of Aynhoe ( 1825-1915 ) and his wife Clementne Gaul.

Cartwright eventually took on a diplomatic career in the British Foreign Service: He was from 1899 to 1902 worked as a counselor of legation in Mexico and from 1902 to 1905 in Lisbon, before he acted as advisor to the British representative in Madrid from 1905 to 1906. From 1906 to 1908 he went as a British envoy in Munich and Stuttgart, and finally in 1908 to reach the peak of his career diplomat with the post of British Ambassador to the dual monarchy of Austria - Hungary in Vienna, where his occupation lasted until 1913.

On October 16, 1898 married Cartwight, who was a Privy Councillor as the British Privy Council, Countess Donna Maria dei Marchesi Chigi Zondadari, the daughter of an Italian senator. The marriage produced a son, Richard Fairfax William Cartwright of Anyhoe went ( born July 29, 1903 † March 31, 1954 ), out.

Works

• The Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King. A Fragment of the Vision of Sheikh Haji Ibrahim of Kerbala. Rendered into English or rather 1899.