Category:Edward Thornton (diplomat)

**Edward Thornton**
	British diplomat (1817-1906)
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Date of birth	13 July 1817; London
Date of death	26 January 1906; London
Place of burial	Brookwood Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
Educated at	Pembroke College; King's College London;
Occupation	diplomat;
Employer	Foreign Office;
Member of	Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople (honorary member, 1885–);
Position held	Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom; ambassador of the United Kingdom to Argentina (1859–1865); Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Russian Empire (1881–1884); ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United States (1867–1881); ambassador of the United Kingdom to Brazil (1865–1867); Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Ottoman Empire (1884–1887); ambassador of the United Kingdom to Uruguay (1854–1859);
Father	Edward Thornton;
Child	Edward Thornton;
Authority file
	Q5345619; ISNI: 0000000073905426; VIAF ID: 4197477; Library of Congress authority ID: n96055324; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID: 36511; Open Library ID: OL5667730A
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