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"SIR FRANK CAVENDISH LASCELLES (1841-1920), English diplomatist, was horn in London March 23 1841, the third son of the Rt. Hon. William Saunders Sebright Lascelles by his wife Lady Caroline Georgiana Howard, daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle. He entered the diplomatic service in 1861. In 1867 he was secretary of legation at Berlin, and in 1871 was transferred to Paris as second secretary. After various more or less brief appointments, he went in 1879 as agent and consul-general to Bulgaria. He was created K.C.M.G. in 1886, and in 1887 was appointed minister to Rumania. In 1891 he went to Persia, but in 1894 was recalled from Teheran and sent as ambassador to Russia, where, however, he only remained a year, being transferred in 1895 to the court of Berlin. His period as ambassador to Germany opened in a singularly inauspicious manner, as in 1896 occurred the incident of the Kruger telegram, which naturally aroused great anger in England and rendered his position extremely difficult. After the storm had blown over, however, the relations of the British ambassador with the Emperor became of the most friendly and intimate character. He retired in 1908 and died in London Jan. 2 1920. He was made a privy councillor in 1894, G.C.M.G. in 1892, G.C.B. in 1897, and G.C.V.O. in 1904. He married in 1867 Mary Emma, the eldest daughter of Sir Joseph 0111ffe, physician to the British embassy in Paris. He left, besides two sons, a daughter, who married in 1904 Sir Cecil Spring-Rice.