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Sydney Waterlow was the eldest son of George Sydney Waterlow - the fourth son of Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet - and Charlotte Elizabeth Beauchamp.
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Sydney Waterlow
Edit ProfileEducation
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class in the Classics Tripos (Bachelor 1900, Master of Arts 1905).
Career
Waterlow joined the Diplomatic Service in 1900. From 1900 to 1901 he served in the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. He was an Attaché in Washington in 1901, and Third Secretary from 1902 to 1905.
Resigning from the Foreign Office, Waterlow left the Foreign Office to became a University extension lecturer until the outbreak of World War I, when he returned to the FO. He rose to be Acting First Secretary in 1919, and participated in the Paris Peace Conference.
From 1922 to 1924 he was Director of the Foreign division of the Department of Overseas Trade, and from 1924 to 1926 he was a Counsellor in the Foreign Office. He was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Bangkok from 1924 to 1926, in Addis from 1928-1929, in Sofia from 1929 to 1933, and in Athens from 1933 to 1939.
Waterlow was also an author, editor and translator of several literary and classical works. In 1920 Waterlow was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1935 appointed as a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.
He died 4 December 1944 at Oare near Marlborough.
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In praise of Cambridge, an anthology in prose and verse
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In praise of Cambridge: an anthology in prose and verse
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In praise of Cambridge, an anthology in prose and verse
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United Kingdom