Robert Gilmour Colquhoun

Sir Robert Gilmour Colquhoun KCB (9 January 1803 – 10 November 1870)[1] was a Scottish diplomat.

This article is about the British diplomat. For the Scottish painter, see Robert Colquhoun.

Colquhoun was born on Jamaica Street, Glasgow, and baptised in Luss, Dumbartonshire,[2] the eldest and only surviving son of Robert Colquhoun, 16th of Camstradden and Harriet Farrer.[3] He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford.[4] He was appointed Consul in Bucharest, Romania on 18 January 1835, Consul-General on 15 December 1837, and Agent and Consul-General on 18 November 1851. He received the Order of the Nichan Iftikhar. He was employed in Bosnia in 1854.[5]

He was appointed Agent and Consul-General in Egypt on 14 January 1859.[6] He served there until he retired in 1865 with the confidence and respect of the British government, and the rank of Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.[7]

He died in Pitlochry, aged 67.[8]

References
  1. "Colquhoun, Sir Robert Gilmour (1803–1870) Knight Diplomat". National Register of Archives. The National Archives. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
  2. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
  3. Fraser, Sir William (1869). The Chiefs of Colquhoun and Their Country. T. and A. Constable. p. 243. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  4. Boase, Frederic (1892). Modern English Biography. Vol. 1. Netherton and Worth. p. 748.
  5. Cavendish, Francis W. H.; Hertslet, Edward (1857). The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book. London: Harrison and Sons. p. 47.
  6. "No. 22219". The London Gazette. 14 January 1859. p. 128.
  7. Irving, Joseph (1879). The Book of Dumbartonshire (snippet view). W. and A. K. Johnston. p. 263. Retrieved 2009-07-06. retired 1865.
  8. "Deaths." The Belfast Newsletter, p. 1. 10 November 1870.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Frederick Wright-Bruce		 British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt
1859–1865		 Succeeded by
Edward Stanton
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