Sir William Wiseman, 10th Baronet

The grandson of Sir William Wiseman, 8th Baronet, a British naval officer, he was educated at Winchester College and Jesus College, Cambridge.{{Cite news|date=18 June 1962|title=Sir William Wiseman|page=14|work=The Times|issue=55420}} He was appointed a second lieutenant in the Cardigan Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia) on 30 April 1902.{{London Gazette| issue=27429 |page=2864 |date=29 April 1902}}

As a businessman, before the outbreak of the First World War he was chairman in London of Hendens Trust. From 1914, he served as a lieutenant colonel with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry but, following injury, transferred to military intelligence. He was sent by Secret Intelligence Service director, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, to establish the agency's office in New York, 'Section V'.{{cite journal |journal=Intelligence and National Security |title=Englishmen in New York: The SIS American Station, 1915–21 |author=Richard Spence |date= September 2004 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=511–537

|doi=10.1080/0268452042000316269|s2cid=154992373 }} As the head of the British intelligence mission in the United States, Wiseman was extensively involved in the counter-intelligence against the Indian seditionists and was ultimately responsible for leaking to New York Police, bypassing diplomatic channels, the details of a bomb plot that led to the uncovering of the Hindu Conspiracy.

Wiseman acted as a liaison between Woodrow Wilson and the British government. He and his associate General Julius Klein were closely associated with Special Advisor to Wilson Colonel Edward M. House. He met with Wilson on a regular basis and on one notable occasion in August 1918 spent a week's vacation with the President and House.The Secret History of MI6; 1909-1949, Keith Jeffery, Penguin, 2010, Kindle Edition location 2153 Wiseman was also a mentor to spy chief William Stephenson. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath, In recognition of services in connection with the War, in the King's 1918 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=30723 |date= 3 June 1918|page=6528 |supp=y}}

After the war, Wiseman was a participant in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. He remained in the U.S. as an employee of Kuhn Loeb, becoming a partner in 1929.

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• Foreign policy of the Woodrow Wilson administration

• Fowler, W.B. British-American Relations 1917–1918. The Role of Sir William Wiseman (Princeton University Press, 1969). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2147792 online review] also [https://www.proquest.com/openview/d3a634826c2b6912bd9ea51498482b3a/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y dissertation version]

• Sir William Wiseman papers (MS 666). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0666]
• Sir William George Eden Wiseman, 10th Bt. entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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