PAUNCEFOTE, JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE

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PAUNCEFOTE, JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE , 1sT BARON (1828-1902), English diplomatist, third son of Robert Pauncefote of Preston Court, Gloucestershire, was born on the 13th of September 1828. He was educated at Marlborough, Paris and Geneva, and called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1852. He was for a short time secretary to Sir William Molesworth, secretary for the colonies, and in 1862 went out to Hong-Kong, where he was made attorney-general (1865) and then

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

justice of the supreme court. He was appointed

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

justice of the Leeward Islands in 1873, and, returning to England in the next year, became one of the legal advisers to the colonial office. Two years later he received a similar appointment in the foreign office, and in 1882 was made permanent under-secretary of state for foreign affairs. In 1885 he was one of the delegates to the

Suez

SUEZ

Canal

international

INTERNATIONAL, THE

commission, and received the G.C.M.G. and the K.C.B. Lord

Salisbury

departed from precedent in choosing him to succeed Sir Lionel Sackville-West as British minister at Washington in 1889, but the event showed that his knowledge of

international

INTERNATIONAL, THE

law made up for any lack of the

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

diplomatic training. He did much during his

term

TERM

of office to maintain friendly relations between the two countries, especially during the Venezuelan crisis. The Bering Sea

fishery

FISHERY (LAW OF)

dispute (189o-1892) was successfully negotiated by him; he arranged a draft treaty for Anglo-American arbitration, which was, however, quashed by the Senate; and carried through
the revision of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty on the subject of the Panama Canal. In 1893 the British minister at Washington was raised to the rank of

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

, and Sir Julian Pauncefote became the doyen of the diplomatic corps. He died on the 26th of May 1902 at Washington. He had been made Baron Pauncefote of Preston in 1899 in recognition of his services at the Peace Conference at the Hague, and he was a member of the Court of Arbitration which resulted from the conference.

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