Background
Julian Pauncefote was the third son of Robert Pauncefote of Preston Court, Gloucestershire. He was born on the 13th of September 1828 in Munich, Bavaria.
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Julian Pauncefote was the third son of Robert Pauncefote of Preston Court, Gloucestershire. He was born on the 13th of September 1828 in Munich, Bavaria.
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.
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 (1890 - 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 was a member of the Court of Arbitration which resulted from the Peace Conference at the Hague.
He was made Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1879 and a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) the following year.
In 1885 he received the Order of St Michael and St George and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1888.
Pauncefote became a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 1892.
He was made Baron Pauncefote of Preston in 1899 in recognition of his services at the Peace Conference at the Hague.
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Lord Pauncefote married Selina Cubitt, daughter of William Cubitt, in 1859. They had one son, who died as an infant, and four daughters.
