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Sir Reginald Thomas Tower KCMG CVO FSA [1]
Early life [ edit ]
Tower was educated at Harrow School and then Trinity College, Cambridge , where he graduated with an MA in 1887.[2]
Diplomatic career [ edit ]
Reginald Tower served in the following diplomatic positions:[1]
Tower's letters (some typed, mostly handwritten) when he was Secretary of Legation at Peking to Sir Ernest Satow , his superior and the Minister in Peking 1900-06, are in the Satow Papers held at the National Archives of the UK.[5] [6]
In 1907, while British Ambassador to Mexico, Tower donated a trophy in order to establish the Copa México Copa Tower .
Tower was the British Ambassador in Argentina and Paraguay for the duration of the First World War . During the war years he worked energetically to secure British wheat imports from Argentina, and to persuade British-owned companies to suspend German employees and refuse to do business with German firms.[7]
In 1904 Tower was awarded the Grand Cross of the Frederick Order of Württemberg. He was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1906,[8] Order of St Michael and St George in the 1911 Coronation Honours .[9] National Portrait Gallery, London .[10]
Reginald Tower was a member of the Travellers' Club and the Royal Automobile Club .[1]
References [ edit ]
^ "No. 27372" . The London Gazette
^ "Court circular". The Times . No. 36651. London. 30 December 1901. p. 7.
^ Satow Papers ref. PRO 30/33 7/7.
^ Satow to Sir Edward Grey, telegram copy, March 4, 1906. Satow Papers, PRO 30/33 7/5.
^ Gravil, Roger. 'The Anglo-Argentine Connection and the War of 1914–1918' in Journal of Latin American Studies , 1977, pp. 59–89
^ "No. 27965" . The London Gazette
^ "No. 28505" . The London Gazette
^ National Portrait Gallery website
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