John Jordan (diplomat)

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Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United Kingdom to the Republic of China
In office
28 November 1910 – 1 March 1920
MonarchGeorge V
Preceded byWilliam Grenfell Max-Muller
Succeeded bySir Beilby Alston
Personal details
Born
John Newell Jordan

(1852-09-05)5 September 1852
Queen's College, Cork

Sir John Newell Jordan

PC
(5 September 1852 – 14 September 1925) was a British diplomat.

Early life and career

Jordan was born in

Peking
in 1891.

In 1896 he was appointed

Minister-Resident in August 1901.[3] He remained there until November 1905, being appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1904. Jordan received the Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal in 1897 followed by the King Edward VII Coronation Medal in 1902.[1]

Ambassadorial career

In 1906 he was appointed HM

Privy Council in 1915, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable". In 1920, Jordan became a director of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.[7]

Jordan, despite his retirement, was a delegate to the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–1922.

Personal life and family

In 1885, Jordan married Annie Howe Cromie (1849–1939), the eldest child of Dr Robert Cromie JP (1813–1901), the ruling elder of Clough Presbyterian church, a general practitioner and the local registrar of births and deaths, and his wife Ann Jane (née Henry; 1823–1899) of Ballyhosset, near Ardglass.

They had four children: three sons and a daughter. Dr John Herbert Jordan MC (1887–1949) was head of the Department of Public Health in Shanghai. Edith Mary Jordan (1890–1918) was married in 1911 to Lieutenant-General

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
in Shanghai, before contracting polio.

Sir John and Lady Jordan were keen Sinophiles and collectors. Part of their extensive collection of ornate oriental carvings, jade, silver, ivories, textiles, porcelain, paintings and teapots was bequeathed to Bangor Borough Council by their son Bob and now form part of the collections of the North Down Museum.

Legacy

At his death he left estate valued at £39,409.[A][8]

Jordan Road in Hong Kong's Kowloon District is named after him.[9]

Notes

  1. ^
    Approximately £1,961,000.00 at 2014 values.[10]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "Privy Councillors". Daily Record. British Newspaper Archive. 3 June 1915. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  2. ^ Hirata 2013, p. 901.
  3. ^ "No. 27344". The London Gazette. 9 August 1901. p. 5256.
  4. ISBN 978-0-674-44320-4
    .
  5. ^ "[Untitled]". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. British Newspaper Archive. 27 November 1920. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Mr. Carnegie Will Receive Freedom of Belfast". Evening Telegraph (Dundee). British Newspaper Archive. 26 September 1910. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Announcement". Aberdeen Journal. British Newspaper Archive. 27 November 1920. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  8. ^ "Recent Wills". Aberdeen Journal. British Newspaper Archive. 6 November 1925. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  9. ISBN 9789622098138
    .
  10. ^ MeasuringWorth.com

References

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