James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury

James Howard Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury, GCB (* April 21, 1746 in Salisbury, † November 20, 1820 ) was a British diplomat.

Harris studied, after he had visited the Winchester College. At the Universities of Oxford and Leiden He became in 1767 secretary of legation in Madrid, where already his great abilities were recognized.

In 1772, he was ambassador in Berlin, in 1776 went as Minister Plenipotentiary to St. Petersburg, 1782 to The Hague. There he met several times during the uncertain situation of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Prussian diplomat Friedrich Wilhelm von Thule Meier. In recognition of his merits Harris was appointed in 1788 as Baron Malmesbury of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, to the peer. Five years later, Harris went back to Germany, where he 1795, the marriage of the British heir to the throne, the Prince of Wales, mediated with the Princess Caroline of Brunswick. He also served as deputy to the Prince at the wedding ceremony and then accompanied the princess to the UK.

1796 and 1797 he negotiated unsuccessfully with the French Directorate in Paris and Lille, but then had to retire because of deafness. 1800 Harris was raised to the Earl of Malmesbury.

Writings

Edited by his grandson, James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury

  • Diaries and correspondence of James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury: London 1844, 4 volumes
  • Letters of the first Earl of Malmesbury, 1746-1820: there 1870, 2 volumes
  • James Harris, first Earl of Malmesbury, diaries and correspondence during his stay as an envoy to the courts of Madrid, Frederick the Great, Catherine II and in the Hague, as well as his special missions to Berlin, Brunswick and the French Republic. Edited by his grandson. Ins German transferring A. Kretzschmar; First band; Printing and Publishing of publishing Comptoirs Grimsby, 1848.
  • British Ambassador to France
  • British Ambassador to Russia
  • Earl of Malmesbury
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
  • Politicians (18th century)
  • Politicians (19th Century )
  • Member of the House of Commons (Great Britain 1707-1801 )
  • Briton
  • Born in 1746
  • Died in 1820
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