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MALMESBURY, JAMES HARRIS, IST EARL OF (1746-1820)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 493 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MALMESBURY, JAMES HARRIS, IST EARL OF (1746-1820) , English diplomatist, was born at Salisbury on the 21st of April 1746, being the son of James Harris (q.v.), the author of Hermes. Educated at Winchester, Oxford and Leiden,
young
  Harris became secretary in 1768 to the British embassy at Madrid, and was left as charge d'affaires at that court on the departure of Sir James Grey until the arrival of George Pitt, afterwards Lord Rivers. This interval gave him his opportunity; he discovered the intention of Spain to attack the Falkland Islands, and was instrumental in thwarting it by putting on a bold countenance. As a reward he was appointed minister ad interim at Madrid, and in January 1772 minister plenipotentiary to the court of Prussia. His success was marked, and in 1797 he was transferred to the court of Russia. At St
Petersburg
  he made his reputation, for he managed to get on with Catherine in spite of her predilections for France, and steered adroitly through the accumulated difficulties of the first Armed Neutrality. He was made a knight of the Bath at the end of 1778, but in 1782 he returned home owing to ill-health, and was appointed by his friend Fox to be minister at the Hague, an appointment confirmed after some delay by Pitt (1784). He did very
great
  service in furthering Pitt's policy of maintaining England's influence on the Continent by the arms of her allies, and held the threads of the diplomacy493
which ended in the king of Prussia's overthrowing the republican party in Holland, which was inclined to France, and re-establishing the prince of Orange. In recognition of his services he was created Baron Malmesbury of Malmesbury (Sept. 1788), and permitted by the king of Prussia to
bear
  the Prussian eagle on his arms, and by the prince of Orange to use his motto " Je maintiendrai." He returned to England, and took an anxious
interest
  in politics, which ended in his seceding from the Whig party with the duke of
Portland
  in 1793; and in that year he was sent by Pitt, but in vain, to try to keep Prussia true to the first coalition against France. In 1794 he was sent to Brunswick to solicit the hand of the unfortunate Princess Caroline for the prince of Wales, to marry her as proxy, and conduct her to her husband in England. In 1796 and 1797 he was at Paris and Lille vainly negotiating with the French Directory. After 1797 he became partially deaf, and quitted diplomacy altogether; but for his long and eminent services he was in "Boo created
earl
  of Malmesbury, and Viscount Fitzharris, of
Heron
  Court in the county of Hants. He now became a sort of political
Nestor
 , consulted on foreign policy by successive foreign ministers, trusted by men of the most different ideas in political crises, and above all the confidant, and for a short time after Pitt's death almost the political director, of Canning. Younger men were also wont to go to him for advice, and Lord Palmerston particularly, who was his ward, was tenderly attached to him, and owed many of his ideas on foreign policy directly to his teaching. His later years were free from politics, and till his death on the 21st of November 182o he lived very quietly and almost forgotten. As a statesman, Malmesbury had an influence among his con-temporaries which is scarcely to be understood from his writings, but which must have owed much to personal charm of manner and persuasiveness of tongue; as a diplomatist, he seems to have deserved his reputation, and shares with Macartney, Auckland and
Whitworth
  the credit of raising diplomacy from a profession in which only
great
  nobles won the prizes to a career opening the path of honour to ability. He was succeeded as 2nd
earl
  by his son James Edward (1778-1841), under-secretary for foreign affairs under Canning; from whom the title passed to James Howard, 3rd earl of Malmesbury (q.v.).
Malmesbury did not publish anything himself, except an account of the Dutch revolution; and an edition of his father's works, but his important Diaries (1844) and Letters (187o) were edited by his grandson.


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