Francis Stronge

Francis William Stronge KCMG ( born November 22, 1856 in Balleskie Fife (Scotland ); † August 20, 1924 in Kilbroney House, Rostrevor, County Down ) was a British diplomat.

Life

Francis William Stronge, the second son of Lady Margaret Stronge and Sir John Calvert Stronge. He attended the Dublin University and joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, where he reached the rank of Sub - Lieutenant until his retirement in 1876.

Stronge occurred in 1879 in the Foreign Service a. He was accredited to the Embassy in Vienna, Beijing, Opel Constantine, Rome and Athens. In 1903 he was Consul General of Hungary in Austria - Hungary. In 1904 he became Minister Resident in Constantinople Opel at the Sublime Porte. From 1906 to 1911 he was ambassador in Bogotá ( Colombia). On November 10, 1909, he married Mary Elizabeth Fraser of Castleconnell.

From 1911 to 1913 he was British Ambassador to Mexico.

Francis William Stronge was at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution British Minister in Mexico. Sherburne Gillette Hopkins had the power struggle between Francisco Madero and Porfirio Díaz as a struggle between the British founded by Weetman Pearson Compañía Mexicana de Petróleo El Aguila SA and the U.S. subsidiary Pierce Oil Corporation of the Standard Oil Company presented. During his reign Francisco Madero left the state structure intact. Francisco Madero and his brother Gustavo were tortured and murdered in 1913. At Gustavo Adolfo Madero's body had to realize that he had a massive mutilations still alive to suffer.

The meeting of the diplomatic corps with the new rulers Adolfo de la Huerta, and thus the recognition of its government tried to delay Stronge. To his superiors in London he telegraphed that he was afraid that there is no doubt that the president and his deputy had been executed on the orders of the Supreme Leader Huerta and Díaz. While the U.S. ambassador Henry Lane Wilson was a driving force at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, was Stronge primarily as a keen ornithologist. Adolfo de la Huerta took this as advantage and tried in vain to reach an extension of stronges tenure in Mexico over Weetman Pearson.

From 1913 to 1919 Stronge was British Ambassador in Santiago de Chile. He was inducted into the Order of St Michael and St George on June 3, 1915.

It helped that the Chilean Navy 's sister ships, the cruiser Almirante Latorre Acorazado and the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle ( 1918) sold to the Royal Navy.