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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pauncefote, Lord Julian of Preston 1828- (search)
Pauncefote, Lord Julian of Preston 1828- Diplomatist; born in Preston Court, England, in 1828; was called to the bar in 1852; appointed attorney-general of Hong-Kong in 1865; acting chief-justice of the Supreme Court in 1869-72; became permanent foreign under secretary in 1882; minister to the United States in 1889; and ambassador in 1893. He represented Great Britain at the Suez Canal conference in 1885, and at the peace conference at The Hague in 1899, and in the latter year was created first Lord Pauncefote. Since his official residence in the United States he has been connected with the several diplomatic questions between the two countries, and so won the esteem of the United States government that his term of office was extended at its request. pauperism in the United States