3-070-611 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Hon. Lionel Sackville West, the new British Minister to the United States, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Elliott and Fry. 'Mr. Lionel Sackville West has been in the Foreign Office service thirty-six years...In July, 1847, he was appointed Attaché to the British Legation at Lisbon, and was transferred to Naples in November, 1849. He became paid Attaché at Stuttgardt in 1852, and was promoted next year to similar employment at Berlin. In May, 1858, Mr. West was appointed Secretary of Legation at Turin...Mr. West repeatedly acted...as Chargé-d'Affaires of the British Government in Italy...In June, 1864, when Sir James Hudson had left the Turin Embassy, Mr. West also was removed to Madrid, where he was Secretary of Legation, and occasionally Chargé-d'Affaires, until November, 1867. He then served for some time as Secretary to the Embassy at Berlin, but was transferred to Paris in June, 1868, and remained there till November, 1872, repeatedly taking charge of the Embassy, and being accredited as Minister Plenipotentiary in the Ambassador's absence. He subsequently became the Minister accredited to the Argentine Republic in South America. In January, 1878, he was appointed to the Embassy at Madrid'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.