Sydney Waterlow (diplomat)

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Sir Sydney Philip Perigal Waterlow

Ambassador to Greece
from 1933 to 1939.

Life

Sydney Waterlow was the eldest son of George Sydney Waterlow – the fourth son of Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet – and Charlotte Elizabeth Beauchamp. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class in the Classics Tripos (B.A. 1900, M.A. 1905).[1]

Waterlow joined the Diplomatic Service in 1900. From 1900 to 1901 he served in the Eastern Department of the

Paris Peace Conference
. From 1922 to 1924 he was Director of the Foreign division of the Department of Overseas Trade, and from 1924 to 1926 he was a Counsellor in the Foreign Office. He was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Bangkok from 1924 to 1926, in Addis from 1928 to 1929, in Sofia from 1929 to 1933, and in Athens from 1933 to 1939.[1]

Waterlow was also an author, editor and translator of several literary and classical works. In 1920 he was appointed as a

Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Waterlow was also appointed to the Legion of Honour. He died 4 December 1944 at Oare near Marlborough.[1]

Family

Waterlow married twice. His first wedding was at St Marylebone Parish Church in London on 19 November 1902 to Alice Isabella Pollock (1876–1953), the only daughter of Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet.[3] The marriage was annulled in 1912. In 1911, he proposed unsuccessfully to Virginia Woolf.[4] In 1913 he remarried, to Helen Margery Eckhard, a daughter of Gustav Eckhard of Didsbury. There were three children from the second marriage.

Works

References

  1. ^ a b c "Waterlow, Sydney Philip Perigal (WTRW897SP)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "No. 27517". The London Gazette. 20 January 1903. p. 386.
  3. ^ "Marriages". The Times. No. 36923. London. 12 November 1902. p. 1.
  4. ISBN 0-15-626036-0
    .

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