Frank Lascelles

Frank Cavendish Lascelles GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC ( born March 23, 1841 in London, † January 2, 1920 ) was a British diplomat.

Life

He served as Ambassador to Russia and Germany.

Lascelles was the fifth son of Lady Caroline Georgiana and William Saunders Sebright Lascelles.

He studied at the Harrow School before joining the Foreign Service in 1861. He was born in Madrid, Paris, Rome, Washington, D.C. and working in Athens. From 20 March to 10 October 1879 he was Consul-General in Egypt, under the reign of Ismail Pasha. From 1879 to 1887 was Lascelles General in Sofia Bulgaria, which had emerged as an autonomous principality, from the Congress of Berlin in 1878. From 1887 to 1891 Lascelles was the ambassador in Bucharest, Romania. From 1891 to 1894, Lascelles ambassador in Tehran, Persia, where he visited his niece Gertrude Bell. This reported a cholera epidemic in the summer of 1892 in Tehran.

From 1894 to 1895 was Lascelles ambassador in Saint Petersburg. From 1895 to 1908, Lascelles ambassador in Berlin. His tenure in Berlin, Wilhelm II sent the Kruger telegram. Lascelles KCMG in 1886, GCMG in 1892, 1897 and 1904 GCB GCVO. In 1892 he was admitted to the Privy Council.

In 1869 he married Mary Lascelles Emma Olliffe (* 1845, † 1897). Their children were:

• William Frank Lascelles (* March 21, 1863, † March 8, 1913, married Sybil Beauclerk )
• Gerald Lascelles Claud (* July 19, 1869, † June 26, 1919, married Cecil Raffo )
• Florence Caroline Lascelles (* January 27, 1876; † 9 December 1961 married Sir Cecil Spring -Rice )