Henry George Outram
Bax-Ironside
Male
England
1859-11-15
Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, England
1929-04-16
Westminster, London, England
From The Times, 17 April 1929:
Obituary – Sir Henry Bax-Ironside – Diplomatic Career
Sir Henry Bax-Ironside, of Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, late His Majesty’s Diplomatic. Service, died yesterday at his. residence, 23 Grosvenor Place, at the age of 69. Henry George Outram Bax-Ironside belonged to an old Durham family who have held lands at Houghton-le-Spring since the 15th century. His father, Mr. John Henry Bax, CB., who was in the Bengal Civil Service, took the additional name and arms of Ironside on becoming possessed from his mother of the Ironside property.
He was born on November 15, 1859, and was sent to Eton in 1873 to the Reverend George R. Dupuis’s house, Mr. A.C. James being his tutor. He then went up to Exeter College, Oxford, and was nominated an attaché in 1883, being appointed to Constantinople. There that great Ambassador, Sir William White, made him his private secretary. In 1887 he was transferred to Copenhagen and served in subsequent years at Teheran, Vienna, Cairo, Washington, Central America, Peking (as Secretary of Legation from 1897 to 1900), and Stockholm. In September, 1892, he was appointed Minister Resident at) Caracas, but owing to the suspension of diplomatic relations with Venezuela he did not proceed thither till six months later.
In 1907 he was-promoted to be Minister at Santiago (Chile) and was transferred to Berne early in 1909. In January 1911, he was appointed Minister at Sofia, and was created K.C.M.G. in the following June. In January, 1912, he was appointed Special Envoy at the celebration of the coming of age of Prince Boris, heir to the Bulgarian Throne. The outbreak of the War made the position of the British Minister one of peculiar difficulty. Sir Henry took leave in July, 1915, and was presented by King Ferdinand with a tie-pin at a farewell.
In the following October War was declared by Great Britain on Bulgaria, and Sir Henry was not again employed. He was granted a temporary allowance in January 1916, and retired on pension in May, 1918. During his long service, he received allowances for knowledge of Turkish, Persian, and Arabic.
He married first in 1902 Marta Hedwig Jaquette, daughter of Count Fersen-Gyldenstolpe, Master of the Horse to the King of Sweden; she died in 1910, leaving one daughter. He married secondly in 1913 Fanny Agnes, daughter of Lieutenant-General Mr W. Willoughby, C.S.I., and widow of Mr James Jardine. KC.
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