Sir Henry George Outram Bax-Ironside, KCMG (15 November 1859 – 16 April 1929) was a British diplomat, ambassador to Venezuela, Chile, Switzerland and Bulgaria.
Career
editHenry George Outram Bax was the only son of John Henry Bax, of Houghton-le-Spring, who had married Sarah Elizabeth Hughes,[1] and in 1866 took the surname Bax-Ironside by royal warrant,[2] when his son became Henry Bax-Ironside. He was educated at Eton College and Exeter College, Oxford and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1883. He served in Copenhagen, Teheran, Vienna, Cairo, and Washington, and was briefly in charge of the Central American Legation in 1897 before being appointed Secretary of the Legation at Pekin in the same year.[3]
Bax-Ironside was First Secretary of the Legation at Stockholm from 1900 until late 1902,[4] when he was appointed Minister Resident and Consul-General at Carácas,[5][6] serving as such until 1907. He arrived in Venezuela in the months leading up to the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903, when the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy imposed a naval blockade against the country from December 1902 until February 1903. Shortly before the actual blockade, Bax-Ironside and other members of his legation were evacuated by a British warship.[7]
He was Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile 1907–09,[8] Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland 1909–10,[9] and Minister Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria, 1911–15.[10] While in Bulgaria he was "His Majesty's Special Envoy Extraordinary to attend the ceremonies to be held in commemoration of the coming of age of His Royal Highness Prince Boris, Prince of Tarnovo, Heir to the Throne of Bulgaria" in 1912.[11]
Henry Bax-Ironside was knighted KCMG in 1911.[12]
Family
editBad-Ironside married at St Peter and St Sigfrid's Church in Stockholm on 15 September 1902 Märtha Hedwig Jacquette Gyldenstolpe (1874–1910), daughter of Swedish nobleman and courtier Count August Gustaf Ferson Gyldenstolpe (1839–1919) and his wife Hedvig Fredrike Alice Nieroth (1850–1927).[13] Her brother was the ornithologist Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe.
After the death of his first wife, in 1913, he married Fanny Agnes (Effie) Jardine, née Willoughby (1857 – c. 1931).[14]
References
edit- BAX-IRONSIDE, Sir Henry (George Outram), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
- ^ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DQG-SM3 : 13 December 2014), John Henry Bax, 1856; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1856, quarter 4, vol. 1A, p. 636, Marylebone, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
- ^ "No. 23174". The London Gazette. 19 October 1866. p. 5527.
- ^ "No. 26882". The London Gazette. 13 August 1897. p. 4547.
- ^ "No. 27238". The London Gazette. 16 October 1900. p. 6323.
- ^ "Diplomatic appointments". The Times. No. 36869. London. 10 September 1902. p. 7.
- ^ "No. 27479". The London Gazette. 3 October 1902. p. 6273.
- ^ "Latest intelligence - Ultimatum to Venezuela". The Times. No. 36946. London. 9 December 1902. p. 5.
- ^ "No. 28074". The London Gazette. 1 November 1907. p. 7295.
- ^ "No. 28225". The London Gazette. 19 February 1909. p. 1306.
- ^ "No. 28462". The London Gazette. 1 February 1911. p. 852.
- ^ "No. 28577". The London Gazette. 2 February 1912. p. 797.
- ^ "No. 28505". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 June 1911. p. 4594.
- ^ "Marriages". The Times. No. 36877. London. 19 September 1902. p. 1.
- ^ Robert Scholes, E. A. Bax-Ironside, The Modernist Journals Project.
