Background
BERTIE, Francis Leveson was born on August 17, 1844. 2nd son of 6th Earl of Abingdon.
BERTIE, Francis Leveson was born on August 17, 1844. 2nd son of 6th Earl of Abingdon.
Eton.
Entered Foreign Office, 1863. Private Secretary to Honourable R. Bourke, afterwards Lord Connemara (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State), 1874-1880. Attached to Special Embassy to Berlin, 1878.
Secretary to Duke of Fife’s mission to invest King of Saxony with Order of Garter, 1881. Assistant Under - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1894. Chairman of Uganda Railway Committee.
Ambassador at Rome, 1903. Coronation Medal, 1902. Grand Cross Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus. S; British Ambassador, Paris, since 1905.
Clubs: Turf, Brooks’s, St. James’s, Travellers’, Beefsteak.
Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, cartulary-register 190; Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, cartulary-register 1904; Knight Commander of the Bath, cartulary-register 1902; Knight Grand Cross of Royal Victorian Order, cartulary-register 1903. Right Honourable; Sir.