JULIAN

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• JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE PAUNCEFOTE

PAUNCEFOTE PAUNCEFOTE  , 1sT BARON (1828-1902), English diplomatist, third son of Robert Pauncefote of Preston Court, Gloucestershire, was born on the 13th of September 1828 . He was educated at Marlborough, Paris and Geneva, and called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1852 . He was for a short time secretary to Sir William Molesworth, secretary for the colonies, and in 1862 went out to Hong-Kong, where he was made attorney-general (1865) and then chief justice of the supreme court . He was appointed chief justice of the Leeward Islands in 1873, and, returning to England in the next year, became one of the legal advisers to the colonial office . Two years later he received a similar appointment in the foreign office, and in 1882 was made permanent under-secretary of state for foreign affairs . In 1885 he was one of the delegates to the Suez Canal international commission, and received the G.C.M.G. and the K.C.B . Lord Salisbury departed from precedent in choosing him to succeed Sir Lionel Sackville-West as British minister at Washington in 1889, but the event showed that his knowledge of international law made up for any lack of the ordinary diplomatic training . He did much during his term of office to maintain friendly relations between the two countries, especially during the Venezuelan crisis . The Bering Sea fishery dispute (189o-1892) was successfully negotiated by him; he arranged a draft treaty for Anglo-American arbitration, which was, however, quashed by the Senate; and carried through the revision of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty on the subject of the Panama Canal . In 1893 the British minister at Washington was raised to the rank of ambassador, and Sir Julian Pauncefote became the doyen of the diplomatic corps . He died on the 26th of May 1902 at Washington . He had been made Baron Pauncefote of Preston in 1899 in recognition of his services at the Peace Conference at the Hague, and he was a member of the Court of Arbitration which resulted from the conference .