Stratford de Redcliffe

[ strat-ferd duh red-klif ]

noun

1. 1st Viscount Stratford Canning, 1786–1880, English diplomat.

Example Sentences

Finally he was installed, from May 1858 to August 1865, as the immediate successor, after the close of the Crimean war, of the “Great Elchi,” Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, as ambassador extraordinary to the Ottoman Porte at Constantinople.

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Ten years later the influence of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was exerted to support Sir Charles Newton in his explorations in Asia Minor.

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The excavations on the site of the Mausoleum added four slabs to the series presented by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe in 1840.

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Sultan Abdul Medjid to Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, and by him presented to the British Museum.

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This treaty, so fatal to Napoleon, and of which he only heard in October, was mainly the work of Stratford de Redcliffe, then aged twenty-five.

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