Alvary Gascoigne

Portrait of Alvary Gascoigne, circa 1930

Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne GBE, KCMG (6 August 1893 – 18 April 1970) was a British diplomat.[1]

Early life

Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne was born on 6 August 1893. He was the son of Colonel Frederick Richard Thomas Trench-Gascoigne and Laura Gwendolen Douglas Galton.[2]

He married Sylvia Wilder in 1916; and two children were born from that union:

His first marriage ended in divorce in 1935; and he remarried in the same year to Lorna Priscilla Leatham.[2]

Lotherton Hall, Aberford, near Leeds

On the death of his father in 1937,[3] he inherited Lotherton Hall, which was the ancestral home of the Gascoigne baronets.[4]

Career

Gascoigne began military service in the First World War as a Second Lieutenant in the cavalry dragoons.[5] In 1915, he was transferred to the Coldstream Guards (Royal Field Artillery).[6]

Gascoigne's career as a diplomat lasted from 1921 through 1953.[2] In 1925, he was appointed as Second Secretary in the Foreign Office;[7] and he was promoted to First Secretary in 1933.[8]

In August 1939, Gascoigne was named Consul-General for the Tangier Zone and the Spanish Zone of the Protectorate of Morocco, to reside at Tangier.[9]

In August 1941, Gascoigne was promoted to the diplomatic rank of embassy Counsellor.[10]

Gascoigne was the British "Political Representative" in Japan from 1946 through 1951.[11] In 1947 when he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.[12] He left Tokyo in 1951.[13]

Sir Alvary was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Moscow on 18 October, 1951.[14] In December 1951, he was honored as Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.[15]

Later years

Sir Alvary lived in retirement at Lotherton Hall. In 1968, he presented the Hall and grounds to Leeds City Council.[16] He died on 18 April 1970 at age 76; and the London Gazette published a notice of Sir Alvary's death.[1]

Honours

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Lundy, Darryl. "Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne, ID#34634". The Peerage. External link in |publisher= (help);The London Gazette: no. 45089. p. 4854. 28 April 1970. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Lundy, Darryl. "ID#34634". The Peerage. External link in |publisher= (help), citing Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (Charles Mosley, ed.), 1999, vol. 1, p. 124.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 34438. p. 5987. 24 September 1937. Retrieved 2011-05-18.; The London Gazette: no. 34509. p. 3014. 10 May 1938. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  4. ↑ Leeds City Council, Lotherton Hall
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 28791. p. 259. 9 January 1914. Retrieved 2011-05-18.; The London Gazette: no. 28947. p. 8491. 20 October 1914. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 31256. p. 4107. 28 March 1919. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 33050. p. 3550. 26 May 1925. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  8. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 33983. p. 6352. 3 October 1933. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  9. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 34711. p. 6949. 17 November 1939. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  10. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 35414. p. 194. 9 January 1942. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  11. ↑ Hoare, James. (1999). Embassies in the East: the Story of the British Embassies in Japan, China, and Korea from 1859 to the Present, p. 214., p. 214, at Google Books
  12. 1 2 The London Gazette: no. 38161. p. 7. 30 December 1947. Retrieved 2011-05-18.; 3rd grade The London Gazette: no. 38262. p. 2411. 16 April 1948. Retrieved 2011-05-18.; 2nd grade The London Gazette: no. 38952. p. 3257. 23 June 1950. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  13. ↑ UK Hansard, HC Deb 21 March 1951 vol 485 cc2413-4; retrieved 2011-05-18
  14. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 39513. p. 2013. 11 April 1952. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  15. 1 2 3 The London Gazette: no. 39732. p. 21. 30 December 1952. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
  16. ↑ Leodis, Lotherton Hall, Sir Alvary Gascoigne; retrieved 2011-05-18

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