Sir Henry Mortimer
Durand
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DURAND, Sir Henry Mortimer, K.C.S.I.(Knight Commander of
the Order of the Star of India), K.C.I.E. (Knight
Commander Order of the Indian Empire), is the second son
of the late Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand, and
was born in 1850. Entering the diplomatic service he
became Junior Attaché (Foreign Department) in 1874, and
Assistant-Secretary in the same in 1877. In 1879 he was
sent out on political duty with the Kabul field force.
From 1880 to 1885 he was Under-Secretary in the Foreign
Department of the Government of India, and subsequently
became Secretary. In 1885 he was made C.I.E. and C.S.I.
In 1893 he conducted an important diplomatic mission at
Kabul, the object of which was to establish cordial
relations between the Amir's Government and our own. On
his return from Afghanistan he was made K.C.S.I. and
K.C.I.E. He was subsequently appointed British Minister
Plenipotentiary to Persia, and started for the Shah's
dominions on Oct. 2, 1894. Sir Mortimer Durand married,
in 1875, Ella, daughter of T. Sandys, Esq., of Lincoln's
Inn
Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary
of Contemporaries
By Victor Plarr
Published by G. Routledge and Sons, limited, 1895 Pages
352-353
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