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- Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen, 1st and last Bt.1
M, #6150, d. 21 February 1932
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Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen, 1st and last Bt. married Berta Mary Lowry-Corry, daughter of Armar Henry Lowry-Corry and Alice Margaret Greg, on 2 May 1899.2 He died on 21 February 1932.2
Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen, 1st and last Bt. was invested as a Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.).1 He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.).2 He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Royal Victorian Order (G.C.V.O.).1 He gained the title of 1st Baronet de Bunsen.2 He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross, Order of St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.).1
Child of Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen, 1st and last Bt.
Hilda Violet Helena de Bunsen+ 1
Citations
[S8] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 67. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition.
[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 339. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
Maurice De Bunsen
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Mideast & N. Africa Encyclopedia1852 - 1932
British diplomat.
Maurice De Bunsen entered the diplomatic service in 1877 and helped settle the dispute between France and Spain over Morocco in 1911 and 1912. In 1915, Prime Minister H. H. Asquith appointed him head of a committee to determine British wartime policy toward the Ottoman Empire in Asia. The resulting report of the De Bunsen committee established the foundation for British policy in the Middle East.
Bibliography
Hurewitz, J. C., trans. and ed. The Middle East and NorthAfrica in World Politics, 2d edition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975.
Maurice de Bunsen
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Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen, 1st Baronet GCMG GCVO CB PC (8 January 1852 – 21 February 1932),[1] was a British diplomat.
Background and early life
De Bunsen was the son of Ernest de Bunsen, second son of Baron von Bunsen, Prussian ambassador to London, by Elizabeth Gurney. He was educated at Rugby School, and Christ Church, Oxford, and entered the diplomatic service in 1877.
Diplomatic career
De Bunsen was appointed Third Secretary in 1879 and Second secretary in 1883, then served as Secretary of Legation in Tokyo 1891–1894, and as Consul- General in Siam 1894–1897. He was Secretary at Constantinople 1897–1902, Secretary of Embassy and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris 1902–1905, and saw his first posting as head of station when he was appointed British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Lisbon in 1905. He was British Ambassador to Spain between 1906 and 1913 and to Austria between 1913 and 1914.
On 16 July 1914, reporting on what he had been told the previous day at a lunch with Count Heinrich von Lützow, who had learned of the planned aggression against Serbia and was trying to derail what he saw as a coming war, told Sir Edward Grey that "a kind of indictment is being prepared against the Servian Government for alleged complicity in the conspiracy which led to the assassination of the Archduke" and that "the Servian Government will be required to adopt certain definite measures in restraint of nationalistic and anarchistic propaganda, and that Austro-Hungarian Government are in no mood to parley with Servia, but will insist on immediate unconditional compliance, failing which force will be used. Germany is said to be in complete agreement with this procedure."[2] An old hand at the diplomatic game, Von Lutzow made a friend of Bunsen feeling obliged to disclose the truth.
However he was a thorough, diligent public servant, and an efficient administrator, who would prove an exemplary wartime record. Reserved, modest and decorous, Sir Maurice would later be forced to resign, but he showed a shrewd alertness to the July crisis. So when he visited Berchtold at his country estate, Buchlau on the 17th they shared a passion for horses. He cabled Sir Arthur Nicholson from Vienna warning him that it was a very grave situation; Austria intended to "compel" Serbia to yield.[3]
His wife recorded in her diary
A strong note with ultimatum Lutzow told M is to be sent in the next week probably not acceptable to Serbia.[4]
Whilst he may have believed Austrian innocence Grey had already received the importance of the message loud and clear.
The Foreign Minister was reassuringly "charming," and the British showed no further curiosity about the leak of vital information.[5] When on 25 July 1914 Serbia rejected Austria's Ultmimatum de Bunsen wrote to Sir Edward Grey "...vast crowds parading the streets and singing patriotic songs till the small hours of the morning."[6] Within a week, the rest of Europe was aflame, and he was recalled to London after the outbreak of the First World War.
He headed the De Bunsen Committee in 1915, established to determine British wartime policy toward the Ottoman Empire, and was also head of a special mission to South America in 1918. He retired from the diplomatic service in 1919.[1]
Honours
De Bunsen was sworn of the Privy Council in 1906[7] and created a baronet, of Abbey Lodge, Hanover Gate, in the Metropolitan borough of Saint Marylebone, in 1919.[8] He died in February 1932, aged 80, when the baronetcy became extinct.
Family
De Bunsen married, in 1899, Bertha Mary Lowry-Corry. They had four daughters, including:[1]
Hilda Violet Helena de Bunsen, married firstly Major Guy Yerburgh (d 1926), and secondly Major-General Sir Guy Salisbury-Jones
Elizabeth Cicely de Bunsen, married Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Vivien Campbell Douglas (1902–1977)
References
1. a b c de BUNSEN, Rt Hon. Sir Maurice (William Ernest)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
2. de Bunsen to Sir Edward Grey, no.50, vol.11; McMeekin, p.128
3. de Bunsen to Sir A Nicholson, no.56 BD, vol.11
4. Sat 18 July 1914, Lady Berta de Bunsen, Diary; Schmidt, p.72; McMeekin, n.129.
5. Sean McMeekin, July 1914: Countdown to War (Basic Books, 2014; ISBN 0465038867), Ch. 8.
6. Bunsen to Grey, 8 August 1914. HHStA, PA VIII England Berichte 1913, Weisungen Varia 1914; Herwig, First World War, p.19
7. The London Gazette: no. 27886. p. 1133. 16 February 1906.
8. The London Gazette: no. 31255. p. 4008. 28 March 1919.
Bibliography
Fischer, Fritz, Griff nach der Weltmacht. Die Kriegszielpolitik des Kaiserlichen Deutschland, 1914-1918, Dusseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1969
McMeekin, Sean, July 1914: Countdown to War, London, 2013.
Schmidt, B.E., The Coming of the War, 1914, 2 vols, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.
Primary sources
British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914, ed. G.P.Gooch and Harold Temperley, London, 1926, vols. 1, 8-11.
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