Social Victorians/People/Ambassadors and Ministers

Dignitaries, Ambassadors and Ministers

See also the list of Ambassadors and Ministers in the list of people invited to social events typically hosted by royals.

Australia

• The Chief Justice of South Australia

• Mr. Justice Williams of Victoria and Mrs. Williams and Miss William (assuming Australia; might be wrong)

Austro-Hungarian Empire

• Count Karolyi, Ambassador, and the Countess Karolyi
• 1895 April 8, Monday: the Globe announced that "Count Max Hadik, the newly-appointed Attaché at the Austro-Hungarian Embassy, has arrived in London."
• 1895 February 15: presented at a Levee at St. James's Palace in the Diplomatic Circle to the Prince of Wales "By the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, Herman. Prince of Stolberg Wernigerode, Attache to the German Embassy."
• 1897 August 18, Wednesday: Count Albert Mensdorff was Charge d’Affaires for Austria-Hungary; Count Hadik was Secretary of the Embassy.

  Austro-Hungarians in London celebrated the birthday of the Emperor-King Francis Joseph by a dinner at the Trocadero Restaurant last night. Count Albert Mensdorff, Charge d’Affaires for Austria-Hungary, presided, and among the leading members present were Count Hadik, Secretary of the Embassy; Capt. Sztrany Asky, the Naval Attaché; Chevalier Princig De-Harwaldt, Acting Consul-General; Mr. Leopold Pam, chairman of the Austro-Hungarian Aid Society; Mr. Pillischer, vice-chairman of the Hungarian Association; Mr. Louis Felbermann, hon. secretary of the Hungarian Association; Mr. S. Bodascher, hon. secretary of the Austro-Hungarian Aid Society; Mr. Politzer, almoner of the Austro-Hungarian Aid Society; Mr. M. Weiss, and Mr. J. Kaufmann, almoner of the Hungarian Association; Col. Hain, and many others. A telegram expressing the loyalty of the Austro-Hungarian colony was dispatched to His Majesty the Emperor-King.

  1898 January 21, Friday: the Pall Mall Gazette reported that "Count Max Hadik and Count Alexander Palffy, secretaries of the Austro-Hungarian Embassy in London, have taken leave of the Court of St. James's upon their appointment to other diplomatic positions."

Belgium

• Baron Solvyns, Minister, and the Baroness Solvyns

Brazil

• João Arthur Souza Corrêa, Minister Plenipotentiary (1890–1900)
• Baron de Penodo, Minister, and the Baroness de Penedo

Cyprus

• Chief Justice of Cyprus and Lady Bovill

Denmark

• Monsieur de Falbe, Minister, and Madame de Falbe

France

• William Henry Waddington, Ambassador (1883–1893), and Madame Waddington and Mademoiselle King

German

• Count Hatzfeldt, Ambassador
• Count Georg Herbert Münster, Ambassador (1873–1885), and Countess Marie Münster

Greece

• M. J. Gennadius, Minister

Hong Kong

• Mr. Justice Fielding Clarke of Hong Kong

Italy

• Count Corti, Ambassador
• First Secretary of the Embassy, Count Bottaro Costa (presented Monday 6 July 1896 to the Prince of Wales at a Levee)
• Marquis Montagliari, Attaché (presented Monday 6 July 1896 to the Prince of Wales at a Levee)

Netherlands

• Count de Bylandt, Minister, and the Countess de Bylandt

Persia

• Prince Malcom Khan, Minister, the Princess Malcom Khan, and the Princess Sultana Malcom
• Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (5 September 1848 – 1 May 1896)

Portugal

• M. M. d'Antas, Minister, and Madame d'Antas
• Luis Maria Augusto Pinto de Soveral, Marquês de Soveral, Minister (1891), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1895–1897), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St James's (1897 on)

Russia

• Baron Egor Egorovich Staal or Georges de Staal, Ambassador (1884–1902 ), Madame de Staal, and Mademoiselle de Staal
• M. V. Boulatzell, 2nd Secretary in the Russian Embassy in London (until 29 June 1896, after that 1st Secretary in Vienna)
• Baron Alexandre de Stoeckl, Attaché of the Russian Embassy (as of 1892)
• 1895 February 15: presented at a Levee at St. James's Palace in the Diplomatic Circle to the Prince of Wales "By the Russian Ambassador, M. Romeiko Gourko, Secretary of Embassy, and Captain Prince Oukhtomsky, Naval Attaché."
• 1896 May 1: His Excellency M. de Staal, the Russian Ambassador; Count Pahlen, First Secretary at the Embassy; M. Gourko, Second Secretary; Count Yermoloff, Military Attaché; M. Orloff, of the Chancellery; and M. Volborth, Russian Consul-General in London.

Sierra Leone

• Chief Justice of Sierra Leone

Spain

• Count Casa de Valencia
• Don Cipriano del Mazo, Minister
• 1895 February 15: presented at a Levee at St. James's Palace in the Diplomatic Circle to the Prince of Wales "By the Spanish Ambassador, Don Pablo Sirera, Military Attaché."

Sweden and Norway

• Count Piper, Minister for Sweden and Norway

Turkey

• Rustem Pasha, Ambassador

United States

American Legation in London

• James Russell Lowell, Minister (–1884)
• Henry White, Second Secretary (1883–1886)
• Henry White, First Secretary (1886 – October 1893)

American Embassy in London (1895–)

• John Hay, Ambassador (1896–1898)
• Henry White, First Secretary (1896 – 6 March 1905)
• Joseph H. Choate, Ambassador (1898–)
  • William Woodward, Secretary to Choate (reign of King Edward VII)
• Mr. Edward J. Phelps, Minister, and Mrs. Phelps
• 1895 February 15: presented at a Levee at St. James's Palace in the Diplomatic Circle to the Prince of Wales "By the United States Ambassador, [were] Mr. David D. Wells, Second Secretary, and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, Private Secretary."

International Families

• Prince and Princess Victor of Hohenlohe, the Countess Feodore Gleichen and Count A. E. Gleichen, although closely related to Queen Victoria and also British ultimately. Should be part of the Royal Mob?

• Baroness Alphonse de Rothschild
• Baron Ferdinand and Miss Alice de Rothschild

Dignitaries, Mostly from Outside the U.K.

• Count d'Eulenburg (Philipp Friedrich Alexander, Prince of Eulenburg)
• Prince and Princess de Wagram (in 1886 Napoléon Alexandre Louis Joseph Berthier, 2nd Prince of Wagram [September 10, 1810 – February 10, 1887])
• Duc and Duchesse d'Otrante and Countesse Augusta d'Otrante (Gustave Fouché d'Otrante (1840 - 1910), 5^e duc d'Otrante [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duc_d%27Otrante], married I think to Adélaïde Fouché d'Otrante (1866 - 1943])
• Duc de la Tremonille
• Marques and Marquesa de Santurce and the Mesdemoiselles de Murrieta; Mr. C. de Murrieta and Mr. A. de Murrieta also attended social events
• Marquis de Guadalmina
• Marquise de Lavaggi and Comtesse de Lavaggi
• Marquis Maffei
• Marquis Niccolini
• Count N. Adlerberg
• Count and Countess X. de Florian
• Count P. Esterhazy
• Count Wilmoss Festitics
• Count R. Kinsky
• Count T. Bolesta Koziebrodzki
• Count P. Metternich
• Count Pourtales
• Countess de la Somaglia
• Viscount de Saint Genys
• Baron Both
• Baron and Baronne de Brienen and the Mesdemoiselles de Brienen

• Baron Plessen
• M. and Madame M. Ephrussi
• M. von Hengelmuller
• M. A. Kroupensky
• M. and Madame G. Meyer
• Signor Tosti