Ralph Stevenson

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix= Sir

| name = Ralph Stevenson

| honorific_suffix= {{post-nominals|list=GCMG, MLC, CP}}

| office1 = British Ambassador to Egypt

| term1 = 1950–1955

| office2 = British Ambassador to the Republic of China

| term2 = 1946–1950

| office3 = Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

| term3 = 1943-1946

| office4 = Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary

| term4 = 1939-1941

| party =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|05|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|1977|06|23|1895|05|16|df=yes}}

| death_place =

| education = University College, Oxford

| spouse = {{marriage|Helen Boreel|1921|1944|end=div.}}

| children = 1

| module =

{{Infobox military person

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| unit = Rifle Brigade

| battles = World War I

| rank = Captain

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Sir Ralph Clarmont Skrine Stevenson, GCMG, MLC, CP (16 May 1895 – 23 June 1977){{cite web | url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U159915 | title=STEVENSON, Sir Ralph Clarmont Skrine | work=Who Was Who | publisher=A & C Black |url-access=subscription | accessdate=2008-09-20}} was a British diplomat.

Biography

He was the son of Surgeon-General, H.W. Stevenson and was educated at Wellington College and University College, Oxford. He married Helen Barbara Izabel Boreel on 27 October 1921 and they had one son and divorced in 1944.{{cite book | editor-last=Mosley | editor-first=Charles | editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) | title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage | edition=107th | volume=1 | year=2003 | publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry | location=Wilmington, DE | isbn=978-0-9711966-2-9 | oclc=150226262 | page=433}} He had served in the Rifle Brigade during the First World War, becoming Captain in 1917. His diplomatic career began as 3rd Secretary to the Diplomatic Service in 1919; 2nd Secretary in 1921 and 1st Secretary in 1928. Moving through positions of acting Counselor (1937); Counselor (1938) he became Minister in 1941. During this period he served with the Foreign Office in missions at Copenhagen, Berlin, Sofia, The Hague, Cairo and Barcelona.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

In 1943, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Yugoslavia, a post he held until 1946.{{London Gazette | issue = 36407 |page=1064 | date = 3 March 1944 }} He was the British Ambassador to China from 1946 to 1950.{{Cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/im147-ms10859|title=Papers of Sir Ralph Claremont Skrine Stevenson (1895-1977), Diplomat, with small quantity of additional papers of Henry Wickham Stevenson (father) and Mrs Avery Stevenson (daughter in law) |website=Archives Hub}} Stevenson was Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Egypt from 1950 to 1953 and later on to the Republic of Egypt from 1953 to 1955. He was also a member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man from 1955 to 1970, as well as Captain of the Parish of Arbory from 1963 to 1976.{{cite book |editor-first=Dollin |editor-last=Kelly |title=New Manx Worthies |url=http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/people/neww.htm |accessdate=2009-05-06 |year=2006 |publisher=Manx Heritage Foundation |location=Isle of Man |oclc=77794312}}