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Frederick Philip Lewis Cunliffe-Owen, CBE (30 January 1855 - 30 June 1926) was an English-born writer and newspaper columnist.
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Frederick Philip Lewis Cunliffe-Owen, CBE (30 January 1855 - 30 June 1926) was an English-born writer and newspaper columnist.
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He was a son of exhibition organizer and museum director Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen (1828–1894) and his German wife, Baroness Elisa Amalie Philippine Julie von Reitzenstein (1830-1894), known as "Jenny". His younger brother was industrialist Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet Cunliffe-Owen.
Frederick Cunliffe-Owen was educated at Lancing College and the University of Lausanne. He joined the diplomatic service and spent time in Egypt and Japan. [1]
In 1885, Cunliffe-Owen moved to New York City with his second wife, Marguerite. He wrote for the New York Tribune , becoming first the paper's foreign editor and later its society editor. Using the pseudonym "Marquise de Fontenoy", Cunliffe-Owen wrote syndicated feature articles about European aristocratic and court society. [ citation needed ] He also wrote a series called "An Ex-Attaché's Letters" about European diplomatic and political affairs and wrote editorials on these subjects for the New York Times . [2] [1]
He was a military attaché in Constantinople during the July Crisis that led to World War I. [3]
In 1916, he was sued by Rudolph de Landas Berghes for libel, after writing to the Bishop of Pennsylvania to warn him "against giving any countenance whatsoever to the soi-disant 'Prince de Berghes'." [4]
Cunliffe-Owen was appointed a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1908 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Knight Commander of the Order of the White Eagle (Serbia) in 1920. [5] [6] [7]
Frederick Cunliffe-Owen died in New York on 30 June 1926. [8] Countess Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen died on 29 August 1927. [9]
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In 1877, he married Emma Pauline de Couvreu de Deckersberg (1856-1918), with whom he had two children. They divorced in Switzerland in 1887.
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