William Conyngham Greene
Encyclopedia
Sir William Conyngham Greene KCB
, GCMG
, PC (1854–June 30, 1934) was a British
diplomat.
He was the ambassador in Tokyo in 1912–1919.
Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
, GCMG
Order of St Michael and St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
, PC (1854–June 30, 1934) was a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
diplomat.
He was the ambassador in Tokyo in 1912–1919.
Selected works
Some of Greene's writings were posthumously published.- Foreign Office files for Japan and the Far East (1991)
External links
- UK in Japan, Chronology of Heads of Mission