Sir Francis Richard Plunkett KCMG (1835-1907) was a British diplomat.[1]
Plunkett was born on February 3, 1835 at Corbalton Hall in County Meath, Ireland.
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In 1873, Plunkett was nominated as Secretary of Legation in Tokyo under Sir Harry Parkes.[2] He left Tokyo in 1876 and served as Diplomatic Secretary in St Petersburg, Constantinople and Paris before being appointed Parkes's successor in Japan.
Plunkett was the British Minister in Tokyo, 1884-87,[3] He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George while in Tokyo.
In 1900 he was appointed Ambassador at Vienna and made a Privy Councillor.
He retired in 1905 and died in Paris in 1907.