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Edward Thornton (diplomat)
Sir Edward Thornton KCB (13 July 1817 – 26 January 1906) was a prominent British diplomat, who held posts in Latin America, Turkey, Russia, and served for fourteen years as Minister to the United States.〔
==Early career==
Thornton was born in London, the son of Sir Edward Thornton, also a diplomat, who for many years held the post of British Minister to Portugal.〔
Thornton was educated at King's College London, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge.〔("Death List of a Day. Sir Edward Thornton." ) ''The New York Times'', 27 January 1906. Pg. 9. Accessed: 18 July 2009. 〕〔Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, ed. (''Who's Who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary'' ), Page 1617 – London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904 〕 He entered the diplomatic service as attaché to the mission at Turin in 1842, filled the same position in Mexico in 1845, and was made Secretary of Legation in that Capital in 1853.〔〔 Thornton did much to forward the conclusion of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. In 1852, he was appointed Secretary of Legation at Buenos Aires, and chargé d'affaires to Uruguay in 1854.〔 He was appointed Minister to the Argentine Republic in 1859, and to Brazil in 1865.〔〔
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