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1 Career  



1.1  Retiring and Death  







2 Family  





3 Offices held  





4 Notes  





5 References  














Robert Michell (diplomat)






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Sir Robert Carminowe Michell KCMG (2 September 1876 – 22 January 1956) was a British diplomat who was minister to Bolivia and Uruguay and ambassador to Chile.

Career[edit]

Michell was educated at the former Bath College.[a] After military service during the South African War he entered the Diplomatic Service and was posted to be Vice-Consul at Kertch[2] followed by similar posts at Rotterdam in 1908 and at Nyborg in 1912.[3] The next year he was promoted to be consul in Nicaragua.[4] He was Second Secretary in the British Legation at Santiago, Chile, 1915–1921 and chargé d'affairesinMontevideo 1921–1922. Until 1926 he was Consul-General and chargé d'affaires in Ecuador. He was then appointed MinistertoBolivia 1926–30, Minister to Uruguay 1930–33[5] and AmbassadortoChile 1933–36.[6]

Retiring and Death[edit]

He then retired from the Diplomatic Service and lived in Chile until his death there in 1956.

Michell was knighted KCMG in 1933 at the end of his service in Uruguay.[7]

Family[edit]

In 1903 Robert Michell married Ethel Michell (his third cousin). They had a daughter and a son but she died in 1908, shortly after the birth of her son. In 1916 he married Margarita Gana, daughter of Don Domingo Gana who had been Chilean minister to the United Kingdom. They had a son; she died a few months after him in 1956.

Offices held[edit]

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by

Richard Seymour

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at La Paz
1926–1930
Succeeded by

Richard Nosworthy

Preceded by

Ernest Scott

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay
1930–1933
Succeeded by

Eugen Millington-Drake

Preceded by

Sir Henry Chilton

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile
1933–1936
Succeeded by

Sir Charles Bentinck

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ This Bath College was closed in 1909 (the building is now the Bath Spa Hotel)[1] – not the same as the Bath College formed in 2015.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bath Spa Hotel Archived 1 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Historic England list entry
  • ^ "No. 27673". The London Gazette. 3 May 1904. p. 2847.
  • ^ "No. 28581". The London Gazette. 16 February 1912. p. 1170.
  • ^ "No. 12609". The Edinburgh Gazette. 21 October 1913. p. 1103.
  • ^ "No. 33664". The London Gazette. 25 November 1930. p. 7493.
  • ^ "No. 34019". The London Gazette. 30 January 1934. p. 676.
  • ^ "No. 33980". The London Gazette. 22 September 1933. p. 6148.

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