William Tyrrell, 1st Baron Tyrrell
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William George Tyrrell, 1st Baron Tyrrell GCB, GCMG, KCVO (1866 - 1947) was a British diplomat.
Tyrell, a grandson of an Indian princess, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and from 1889 to 1928 he was at the Foreign Office. He was Private Secretary to Edward Grey from 1905 to 1915, Senior Clerk in the Foreign Office from 1907 to 1918, head of the political intelligence department from 1916 to 1919, Permanent Under-Secretary from 1925 to 1928. Then from 1928 to 1934 he was British Ambassador in Paris. In 1929 he was made a Peer as Baron Tyrrell of Avon in the County of Southampton. In 1935 he was appointed President of Board of Film Censors.
Tyrrell supported the Entente Cordiale with France and did not think a rapprochement with Imperial Germany was possible before 1914. As Permanent Under-Secretary he did not think there was a military threat from Japan and that Russia was the enemy and as Ambassador he worked for an Anglo-French agreement. He was also suspicious of Nazi Germany.
| Government offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Eyre Crowe |
Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs 1925–1928 |
Succeeded by Ronald Lindsay |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by (new creation) |
Baron Tyrrell 1929–1947 |
Succeeded by Extinct |
[edit] References
- John Ramsden, The Oxford Companion to 20th Century British Politics (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 654-55.
- Hundred Years of War against Germany
