Montague Yeats-Brown

Montague Yeats-Brown CMG[1] (2 August 1834 - 22 February 1921) was a 19th-century British diplomat in Genoa and Boston.

Castello Brown, Portofino

Life

Yeats-Brown was born in 1834 in Genoa, where he grew up speaking Genoese, Italian, German and English.[2]: 25 [3]: 6 

His father, Timothy Yeats-Brown, from an English banking family, was the Consul there;[4] his maternal grandfather John Cadwalader was a militia general in the American Revolution. "Monty" attended a German school in Brussels before passing into Marlborough College.[5]

He served in Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia[6] and then in Boston, USA.[1][7][8][9]

Yeats-Brown was appointed British consul to Genoa on the death of his father in 1857,[6] "though only then 23, which is unusually young for such a post".[3] He was appointed as consul to Boston in 1893,[3]: 4  retiring from the diplomatic service in 1896.[9]

In 1867, Yeats-Brown[4] purchased Castello Brown above Portofino,[2]: 25  which he restored over subsequent years, and where he died in 1921.[10]

One of his sons, Francis Yeats-Brown, became well known for his dashing autobiography The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.

See also

List of diplomats of Great Britain to the Republic of Genoa

References
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  2. Jocelyn Baber; John Baber (1965). Castello, Portofino. B.T. Batsford.
  3. Evelyn Wrench, John (1948). Francis Yeats-Brown. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.
  4. nl:Yeats Brown
  5. Brown, Francis A Yeats (1917). Family Notes. Genoa: R Instituto Sordomuti.
  6. "Francis Yeats-Brown". Student Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  7. "ENTERTAINING THE NAVAL VISITORS.; British Officers Given Freedom of Boston Clubs -- Theatre Party". 26 May 1894. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
  8. "Caught by Surprise: Letter Found in Rare Book Collection". Middle East Institute. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  9. "The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art". 129. J. W. Parker and Son. 1920: 447. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. "Ancestry.com". Retrieved 1 October 2014.


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