Background
TOWNLEY, Walter Beaupre was born in January 1863 in Fulbourn Manor, Cambridge. Son of Charles Watson Townley, of Fulbourn, Cambridge, late Lord Lieutenant Cambridge, and Georgiana, daughter of Max Dalison, of Hamptons, Kent.
TOWNLEY, Walter Beaupre was born in January 1863 in Fulbourn Manor, Cambridge. Son of Charles Watson Townley, of Fulbourn, Cambridge, late Lord Lieutenant Cambridge, and Georgiana, daughter of Max Dalison, of Hamptons, Kent.
Eton. Nominated an Attach, 1885. Passed a competitive examination, 1885.
Granted an allowance for knowledge of Persian, 1890. Transferred to Paris, 1892. 2nd Secretary, 1892.
Transferred to Bucharest, 1894, where he acted as Charge d’Affaires, 20 March to 9 December 1894, and to Paris, 12 November 1894, where he acted as Charge d’Affaires, 22 to 27 October 1896. Transferred to Lisbon, 1897. Berlin, 1898; Rome, 1900.
Secretary of Legation, Peking, 1901. Acted there as Charge d’Affaires, 2 December 1902 to 21 August 1903. Councillor of Embassy, 1903.
Transferred to Constantinople, 1903, acted there as Charge d’Affaires, 10 Sept, to 2 March 1905. Transferred to Washington, 15 March 1905. Acted there as Charge d’Affaires, 6 May to 4 June 1906. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Argentine Republic and Republic of Paraguay since 1906.
Clubs: Turf, Travellers’.
Spouse 1896, Lady Susan Mary Keppel,daughter of 2018 7th Earl of Albemarle.