Sir Henry George Elliot(-Murray-Kynynmound), GCB, PC (30 June 1817 – 30 March 1907) was a British diplomat.
Elliot was the second surviving son of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto and his wife, Mary. Educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Elliot served as aide-de-camp and private secretary to Sir John Franklin in Tasmania from 1836 to 1839, and as précis writer to Lord Palmerston at the Foreign Office in 18...
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Sir Henry George Elliot(-Murray-Kynynmound), GCB, PC (30 June 1817 – 30 March 1907) was a British diplomat.
Elliot was the second surviving son of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto and his wife, Mary. Educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Elliot served as aide-de-camp and private secretary to Sir John Franklin in Tasmania from 1836 to 1839, and as précis writer to Lord Palmerston at the Foreign Office in 1840. He entered the diplomatic service in 1841 as attaché at Saint Petersburg, was promoted to secretary of legation at The Hague in 1848, transferred to Vienna in 1853, and in 1858 was appointed British Minister at Copenhagen.
On the accession of Francis II of the Two Sicilies on 22 May 1859, the British government decided to resume diplomatic relations with Naples, which had been broken off in 1856 when Ferdinand II ignored British and French protests at his repressive rule. Elliot was in England on a short leave of absence early in 1859, and...
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