Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock,

Wikipedia Biographical Summary

"Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KCIE (19 September 1849–5 November 1928), known as Sir Arthur Nicolson, 11th Baronet, from 1899 to 1916, was a British diplomat and politician through the last quarter of the 19th century to the middle of World War I...

...He was the eldest son of Admiral Sir Frederick Nicolson, 10th Baronet by his wife Mary Loch. Educated at Rugby and Oxford, where he left without taking a degree, he succeeded his father as Baronet in 1899...

...Nicolson married, in 1882, Mary Katherine Hamilton, daughter of Captain Archibald Rowan Hamilton, of Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down, and thus a descendant of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751-1834). They had three sons, including Frederick Archibald Nicolson (1883-1952), who succeeded him as 2nd Baron Carnock, and Sir Harold Nicolson (1886-1968), the writer and husband of Vita Sackville-West."

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