Geoffrey George Knox

Sir Geoffrey George Knox CMG KCMG (11 March 1884 – 6 April 1958) was a British diplomat who served as High Commissioner of the League of Nations at Saar from 1 April 1932 to 1 March 1935[1] and the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Brazil from 1939 to 1941.[2]

Biography

He was born on 11 March 1884 in Double Bay, New South Wales to Jane de Brixton née Price and George Knox. Knox attended Malvern College in England and entered the Levant Consular Service in early 1906. The first two years of his training involved studying languages at Trinity College, Cambridge. As a diplomat, Knox was first stationed in Persia, where he became acting consul at Kermanshah and Shiraz in 1910 and 1911, respectively. The following year, he became vice-consul in Cairo.[3]

References

Amt, Germany Auswärtiges (1949). Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945, from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1148.
"Previous ambassadors". British Embassy. 2012-07-23. Archived from the original on July 23, 2012. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
"Knox, Sir Geoffrey George (1884–1958)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34355. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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[1] Amt, Germany Auswärtiges (1949). Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945, from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1148.

[2] "Previous ambassadors". British Embassy. 2012-07-23. Archived from the original on July 23, 2012. Retrieved 2019-11-05.

[3] "Knox, Sir Geoffrey George (1884–1958)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34355. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)