Name Alvary Gascoigne Role Diplomat | Died 1970 | |
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Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne GBE, KCMG (6 August 1893 – 18 April 1970) was a British diplomat.
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Early life
Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne was born on 6 August 1893. He was the son of Colonel Frederick Richard Thomas Trench-Gascoigne and Laura Gwendolen Douglas Galton.
He married Sylvia Wilder in 1916; and two children were born from that union:
His first marriage ended in divorce in 1935; and he remarried in the same year to Lorna Priscilla Leatham.
On the death of his father in 1937, he inherited Lotherton Hall, which was the ancestral home of the Gascoigne baronets.
Career
Gascoigne began military service in the First World War as a Second Lieutenant in the cavalry dragoons. In 1915, he was transferred to the Coldstream Guards (Royal Field Artillery).
Gascoigne's career as a diplomat lasted from 1921 through 1953. In 1925, he was appointed as Second Secretary in the Foreign Office; and he was promoted to First Secretary in 1933.
In August 1939, Gascoigne was named Consul-General for the Tangier Zone and the Spanish Zone of the Protectorate of Morocco, to reside at Tangier.
In August 1941, Gascoigne was promoted to the diplomatic rank of embassy Counsellor.
Gascoigne was the British "Political Representative" in Japan from 1946 through 1951. In 1947 when he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George. He left Tokyo in 1951.
Sir Alvary was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Moscow on 18 October, 1951. In December 1951, he was honored as Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.
Later years
Sir Alvary lived in retirement at Lotherton Hall. In 1968, he presented the Hall and grounds to Leeds City Council. He died on 18 April 1970 at age 76; and the London Gazette published a notice of Sir Alvary's death.