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Sir Victor Alexander Augustus Henry Wellesley KCMG CB (1 March 1876 – 20 February 1954) was a British diplomat and author from the aristocratic Wellesley family.

Col. Hon. Frederick 1876 (1844–1931), youngest son of Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley

The only son of the late Colonel the Hon. Frederick Wellesley and Emma Anne Caroline Bloomfield, daughter of Lord Augustus Loftus, G.C.B., he was born on March 1,. From 1887 to 1892 he was Page of Honour to Queen Victoria, his godmother, and in 1899 he became a clerk at the Foreign Office. This, in a sense, was in the family tradition, as his father had been First Secretary in Vienna, and his grandfather, Earl Cowley, was for 15 years Ambassador to the Court of the T uileries in the days of the Emperor Napoleon 111. His mother's father, Lord Augustus Loftus, was Ambassador both to Berlin and Vienna.

In 1905 Wellesley was appointed acting Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service, and in 1905-06 he was attached to the Embassy in Rome. After serving as secretary to the British deletates to the Berne Labour Confer- ence of 1906 he was appointed Commercial Attachd to the Embassy at Madrid and the Legation at Lisbon, and from 1913 to 1916 he held the post of Superintendent of the Foreign Offlce Treaty Department. In 1916 he was appointed Controller of Commercial and Consular Affairs, a post which he held until 1924 with the honorary rank of Assistant Under-Secretary of State. He visited the con- sulates in South and Central America in 1919- 20, and in 1925 he was appointed Deputy Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, a position which he held until his retirement in 1936. He was made a C.B. ir 1919 and a K.C.M.G. in 1926.

In addition to being the author of three books, Conversations with Napoleon III (with Robert Sencourt, 1934), Diplomacy in Fetters, which was published in 1944 and contained detailed proposals for the improvement of the methods of British foreign policy, and Recollections of a Soldier-Diplomat, published in 1947, he was a keen amateur artist and exhibited at the Royal Academy and in several other leading exhibitions. He married in 1909 Alice Muriel, daughter of Leslie Stephen. She died in 1949, and their only daughter died in infancy.

Frederick Arthur Wellesley, Emma Loftus

Bibliography

• Wellesley, Sir Victor (1944). Diplomacy in Fetters. London: Hutchinson & Co. OCLC 754157241.
• ——; Sencourt, Robert (1934). Conversations with Napoleon III. London: Ernest Benn. OCLC 458932499.
• Wellesley, Hon. Frederick Arthur (1947). Wellesley, Victor (ed.). Recollections of a Soldier-Diplomat. London: Hutchinson & Co. OCLC 1308604892.
• —— (1947). "Foreign Affairs and the Public". Journal of International Affairs. 23 (1). Oxford University Press (OUP): 73–73. doi:10.2307/3017742. ISSN 1468-2346.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Kaliforniyka/Sir Victor Wellesley

16. Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington 8. Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley 17. Anne Hill-Trevor 4. Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley 18. Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan 9. Lady Charlotte Cadogan 19. Mary Churchill 2. Hon. Frederick Wellesley 20. James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster 10. Lord Henry FitzGerald 21. Lady Emily Lennox 5. Hon. Olivia FitzGerald 22. Hon. Robert Boyle-Walsingham 11. Charlotte, 21st Baroness de Ros 23. Charlotte Hanbury Williams 1. Sir Victor Wellesley 24. Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely 12. John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely 25. Jane Myhill 6. Lord Augustus Loftus 26. Sir Henry Dashwood, 3rd Baronet 13. Anna Maria Dashwood 27. Helen Mary Graham 3. Emma Loftus 28. Henry Francis Greville 14. Henry Francis Greville 29. Catherine Graham 7. Emma Greville 30. John Despard 15. Harriet Despard 31. Harriot Anne Hesketh