Montague Yeats-Brown
Montague "Monty" Yeats-Brown CMG[1] (2 August 1834 – 22 February 1921) was a 19th-century British diplomat in Genoa and Boston.
Life[edit]
Yeats-Brown was born on 2 August 1834 on Palmaria, and was christened on an American warship then in harbour at the island. He grew up speaking Genoese, Italian, German and English.[2]: 25 [3]: 6
His father, Timothy Yeats Brown, from an English banking family, became Consul of Genoa in 1840;[4] his maternal grandfather John Cadwalader was a militia general in the American Revolution. "Monty" was sent to a German school in Brussels at the age of 10, before passing into Marlborough College.[5]
He served in Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia[6] and then in Boston.[1][7][8][9]
Yeats-Brown began working in the British Consulate in Genoa in 1854 aged 20, was appointed Vice-Consul two years later, and then Consul after his father's retirement in 1857, "though only then 23, which is unusually young for such a post".[6][3] He married Agnes Matilda Bellingham, sister of Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, on 3 November 1875.[10] Yeats-Brown was appointed as consul to Boston in 1893,[3]: 4 retiring from the diplomatic service in 1896.[9]
In 1867, Yeats-Brown[4] purchased Castello Brown above Portofino,[2]: 25 which he restored over subsequent years, and where he died on 22 February 1921.[11]
One of his sons, Francis Yeats-Brown, became well known for his dashing autobiography The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.
See also[edit]
List of diplomats of Great Britain to the Republic of Genoa
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Person Page - 13883". The Peerage. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ a b Jocelyn Baber; John Baber (1965). Castello, Portofino. B.T. Batsford.
- ^ a b c Evelyn Wrench, John (1948). Francis Yeats-Brown. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.
- ^ a b nl:Yeats Brown
- ^ Brown, Francis A Yeats (1917). Family Notes. Genoa: R Instituto Sordomuti.
- ^ a b "Francis Yeats-Brown". Student Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ "Entertaining the Naval Visitors: British Officers Given Freedom of Boston Clubs – Theatre Party". 26 May 1894. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
- ^ "Caught by Surprise: Letter Found in Rare Book Collection". Middle East Institute. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
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"The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art". 129. J. W. Parker and Son. 1920: 447.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Dod's Peerage. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1915. p. 85.
- ^ "Ancestry.com". Retrieved 1 October 2014.
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