![]() ![]() Rumbold conducted negotiations in the first four of the ten days that preceded the outbreak of the First World War. Rumbold was in charge of the British Embassy when the ambassador, Sir Edward Goschen, went home on leave on 1 July. In Berlin, he took up the position of counsellor. ![]() Īfter a year at the Foreign Office in London, he served in Cairo, Tehran, Vienna, Madrid and Munich between 19. ![]() In 1891, he passed the first of the required examinations and entered the Diplomatic Service. Rumbold was an honorary attaché at The Hague (1889–1890), where his father was ambassador. Horace was educated at Aldin House Prep School and at Eton. Petersburg in the Russian Empire, the son of Sir Horace Rumbold, 8th Baronet and Caroline Barney (née Harrington). Rumbold was born on 5 February 1869 at St. A well-travelled man who learned Arabic, Japanese and German, he is largely remembered for his role as British Ambassador to Berlin from 1928 to 1933 in which he warned of the ambitions of Hitler and Nazi Germany. Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, 9th Baronet, GCB, GCMG, KCVO, PC (5 February 1869 – ) was a British diplomat. ![]()
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