George Greville (diplomat)

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Sir George Greville, KCMG (12 May 1851 – 25 October 1937) was a British diplomat.

He was the elder son of Captain Algernon William Bellingham Greville, of Granard, and the great-grandson of Fulke Greville. His uncle was Fulke Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and entered HM Diplomatic Service in 1875.{{Cite news |date=26 October 1937 |title=Sir George Greville |pages=16 |work=The Times}}

Greville was Secretary of the British Legation at Rio de Janeiro in 1892, Consul-General at Budapest in 1896, Minister Resident at Bangkok from 1896 to 1900, and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico from 1900 to 1905.{{Who's Who|id=210443|title=Greville, Sir George|type=was}} Greville was appointed CMG in 1895 and promoted KCMG in 1905.

A Roman Catholic convert, Greville died in Brussels in 1937.

Family

Greville married in 1897, Louisa, daughter of L. Nicholays, of Frankfurt. Their daughter Georgette Greville (1896–1968) became a Catholic nun in Saigon.

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