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��NOTES BY THE WAY.

��Ambassador.

��AMBASSADOR.

��Lord Strat- ford de Redcliffe.

��1880, October 13th (W. E. Gladstone).

Daughters of HON. LOUISA CHARLOTTE CANNING and HON. MARY ELIZABETH

CANNING, with the benefit of survivorship.

" In consideration of the long and most distinguished public service of the late Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. 5001"

Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was born in Clement's Lane on November 4th, 1786 ; he was first cousin of George Canning, the Minister. While ambassador at Constantinople he obtained the firman which authorized him to send Layard to Nineveh at his own personal expense, and he presented the fruits of the famous excavations to the British Museum. He opened the way to the explorations at Budrum in 1846, and presented the frieze to the British Museum. When Turkey was in sore straits, he observed the foundations being laid of a new summer palace, and ordered the boatman to row straight to the Sultan, and a few minutes' conversation ended in stopping the works. WTien Mohammed Aly Pasha, the Minister for the Navy and brother-in-law of the Sultan, had wantonly murdered a Greek concubine, he refused to receive the ruffian, with the message, " Tell the Sultan that an English ambassador can never admit to his presence a cruel assassin," and the minister had to be dismissed (' D.N.B.,' vol. viii.).

Lord Stratford de Redcliffe died on the 14th of August, 1880, when the viscounty became extinct.

CONSULS.

1884, January 30th (W. E. Gladstone). MRS. MARIE ANTOINETTE MONCRIEFF.

" In consideration of the narrow circumstances in which she has been left on the death of her husband, Commander L. N. Moncrieff, R.N., who was killed in the discharge of his duties as Her Majesty's Consul at Suakim. 100Z."

1885, August 24th (Marquis of Salisbury). Second grant. 301.

1887, September 27th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. MARY HUTCHINSON.

" In consideration of the services of her late husband, Mr. Thomas J. Hutchinson, M.D., of Her Majesty's Consular Service, and of his literary attainments. 201"

Thomas Joseph Hutchinson, 1820-85 (' Cassell's Biographical Dictionary '), Consul in South America ; wrote on the Niger, Peru, and Brittany (Sonnenschein's ' Best Books ').

��Consuls.

��Widow of

Commander

Moocrieff.

��Widow of

Dr. T. J.

Hutchinson.

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