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He was educated privately in Paris and (no examinations being then required) was introduced into the diplomatic service by Lord Palmerston in 1849.
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Horace Horace Rumbold
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He was posted in the same year as attaché to Turin (then the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont) and subsequently served at Paris, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vienna and Ragusa. In December 1858 he was appointed secretary of the legation in China and went there in March 1859. The minister, Frederick Bruce, sent him back to England in January 1860 to report to the British government the active resistance which was offered to the progress of the British mission to the Chinese capital.
This report led to the Anglo-French expedition to Peking (Beijing) in that year (in the second phase of the Second Opium War).
Rumbold then held a succession of further posts as secretary of legation or embassy in Athens, Bern, Street St. Petersburg and Constantinople. He then became Minister to Chile 1872-1878.
To the Swiss Confederation 1878-1879. To Argentina 1879-1881.
To Sweden and Norway 1881-1884.
To Greece 1884-1888. To the Netherlands 1888-1896. And finally Ambassador to Austria 1896–1900.
Rumbold was the fourth son of Sir William Rumbold, 3rd Baronet (1787–1833), and Henrietta Elizabeth née Parkyns (1789–1830).
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Horace Rumbold succeeded to the Rumbold baronetcy on the death of his brother, the 7th Baronet, in 1877. He was knighted Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George in 1886, promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Street Michael and Street George in 1892 and given the additional honour of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the Queen"s Birthday of 1897. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1896.
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