Background
GUTIERREZ-PONCE, Don Igrnacio Son of Don Ignacio Gutierrez Vergara, Statesman, and Dona Maria Ignacia Ponce de Lebn.
GUTIERREZ-PONCE, Don Igrnacio Son of Don Ignacio Gutierrez Vergara, Statesman, and Dona Maria Ignacia Ponce de Lebn.
Bogota, where he was Professor of Mathematics at the Seminary. New York University, Doctor of Medicine and Gold Medal. Paris, Doctor of Medicine.
London (University College), M.R.
Civil Service England. Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Clinic of Trocadero, Paris. As President of the Latino-American Society, Paris, he presented to the French Government the Biblioteca Bolivar, composed of about three thousand volumes, which were added to the Library of the Institut.
Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officer of Public Instruction. Plon. Member of the Colombian National Academies of History, Medicine, and Natural Sciences. Entered the Diplomatic service as Secretary to the Colombian Legation at Paris, 1883, and acted as Charge d’Aff'aires, 1884.
Secretary of Legation to London and Berlin, 1884. Proceeded in the same capacity to Madrid, 1886. Returned to the Legation at Paris, 1888.
Cііa^ё d’Affaires, 1889. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to flie German Court since 1908. Special Envoy from the Colombian Govt, to the Coronation of King Edward and Queen Alexandra,1902 (Coronation medal).
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on special mission to the Vatican, 1903. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Courts of Vienna and The Hague since 1908. Member of the Administrative Council of the Permanent International Court of Arbitration.
Delegate from Colombian Government to several International Conferences: Paris, 1883, 1890, and 1900, Copenhagen, 1884, London and Berlin, 1907. Has held Special Commissions from Governments of Salvadorand Bolivia, and from Free Academy of Medicine of Lima (Peru). Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Colombia to the Court of St. James’s, 1901 - 9; Corresponding Member of the Royal Spanish Academy of History and other scientific and literary societies.
Club: Royal Automobile.