Percy Charles Hugh Wyndham

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Percy Charles Hugh Wyndham KCMG (born 23 September 1864;died 6 Oct. 1943), was a senior British diplomat. [1] The son of Sir Hugh Wyndham, [2] Wyndham was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1890. He served at Berlin, Teheran, Constantinople, Madrid, Washington, D.C., Caracas, Brussels and Rome.He was Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Colombia from 1911 to 1918. [3]

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Minister Resident and Consul-General in the Republic of Colombia
1911–1919		Succeeded by

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References

  1. ↑ Obituary. The Times (of London) Thursday, Oct 07, 1943, pg. 7
  2. ↑ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. 1967.
  3. ↑ ‘WYNDHAM, Sir Percy’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 24 Oct 2017


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