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Sir Walter Beaupré Townley (8 January 1863 – 5 April 1945) was a British diplomat, who most notably served as the British Ambassador to the Netherlands during the final years of the First World War. ==Career== Townley (of the Townley of Dutton family) was educated at Eton College. He entered the Foreign Office in 1885 and served at Paris, Teheran, Bucharest, Lisbon, Berlin, Rome, Peking, Constantinople and Washington, D.C. He was Minister to Argentina and concurrently to Paraguay 1906–10, Minister to Roumania 1911–12, Minister to Persia 1912–15 and Minister to the Netherlands 1917–1919. During his time in the Netherlands he had to engage in long negotiations on the fate of the exiled German Emperor, who arrived in November 1918. In Townley's obituary ''The Times'' said: :The friendly relations between Holland and England during the last two years of the 1914–18 war were due to him. He and Lady Susan Townley had also made the Legation an attractive centre for the large British colony, official and other, that congregated in Holland during the last war.〔''The Times'', 7 April 1945〕 Townley resigned in January 1919 but was asked to stay on until August of that year.〔(Sir Walter Townley ), Hansard, 24 February 1919〕 After retiring he was chairman of the Anglo-Batavian Society.〔(''Flight'', 21 May 1925, page 311 )〕 Townley was knighted KCMG in the 1911 Coronation Honours. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Beaupré Townley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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