Fairfax Leighton Cartwright
Sir Fairfax Leighton Cartwright PC (20 July 1857 – 9 January 1928) was a British writer and diplomat who became ambassador to the Austro-Hungarian empire before World War I.
Life
Cartwright was the second son of
Württemberg
.
In 1908 he was made
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a certifiable maniac, and was not fit to inherit the empire, and told his government so.[5]
Cartwight married Donna Maria dei Marchesi Chigi-Zondadari, daughter of an Italian senator on 16 October 1898.[6] They turned the British embassy in Vienna from an undistinguished one into one of the most fashionable. In 1911 an international incident nearly took place involving Lady Cartwright. While she was dancing with the Austrian Foreign Minister, the Russian ambassador cut in and a vicious feud started between the two men.[5]
Works
- Lorello. A play in five acts. In verse 1884
- Bianca Capello. A tragedy. In verse 1886
- The Baglioni. A tragedy. In verse 1888
- Olga Zanelli. A tale of an imperial city 1890. This is a three-volume fictional work which recounted seedy adulteries among figures in high society whose identities were faintly disguised. After all his friends in diplomatic circles begged him to withdraw the book immediately, he managed to recover nearly all the 1500 copies printed.[5]
- The Mystic Rose from the Garden of the King. A Fragment of the Vision of Sheikh Haji Ibrahim of Kerbela 1898
References
- ^ "Diplomatic appointments". The Times. No. 36857. London. 27 August 1902. p. 7.
- ^ "No. 27473". The London Gazette. 12 September 1902. p. 5888.
- ^ The London Gazette Tuesday 20 October 1908
- ^ National Archives Northamptonshire Record Office – Cartwright of Aynhoe collection
- ^ a b c "Aynho – Minutes of April 2009 meeting – The Cartwright papers". Archived from the original on 4 September 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
- ^ Descendants of Margaret Dymoke
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