Henry Stafford Northcote, Baron Northcote

British diplomat and statesman
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Also known as: Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, Baronet
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Also called:
(from 1887) Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, Baronet
Born:
Nov. 18, 1846, London, Eng.
Died:
Sept. 29, 1911, Ashford, Kent (aged 64)

Henry Stafford Northcote, Baron Northcote (born Nov. 18, 1846, London, Eng.—died Sept. 29, 1911, Ashford, Kent) was a British diplomat and administrator, governor-general of Australia from 1904 to 1908. The second son of Sir Stafford Henry Northcote (afterward 1st Earl of Iddesleigh), he attended Eton College and Merton College, Oxford (B.A., 1869; M.A., 1873). He became a Foreign Office clerk in 1868 and, as an aide, accompanied his father to Washington, D.C., in 1871 in the settlement of the Alabama claims. He was private secretary to Lord Salisbury in Constantinople in 1876 and private secretary to his father as chancellor ...(100 of 303 words)