PARKER ALWYN 1877-1951

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  • Reference
    • GB 97 COLL MISC 0547
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1920-1925
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • One box

Scope and Content

Papers of the negotiations with the Turkish authorities in behalf of a British bank consortium concerning the Anatolian Railway and the Ottoman Railway from Smyrna to Ardin.

Administrative / Biographical History

Alwyn Parker 1877-1951

Parker was educated at Harrow and also studied in Germany.

Attache 1900; 3rd Secretary, 1902; Junior Clerk, 1906; Assistant Clerk, 1912; head of the Contraband Dept Foreign Office, 1914-1917; Librarian of the Foreign Office, 1918; served in St Petersburg; granted an allowance for knowledge of Russian and passed an examination in Public Law; commissioned as Counsellor of Embassy in HM Diplomatic Service while attending the Peace Conference at Paris in 1919; was Private Secretary to Lord Hardinge of Penshurst; resigned Foreign Office, 1919; Adviser on reorganisation of Communications Department, Foreign Office, September-December, 1939.

Arrangement

One box

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Acquisition Information

Parker, Dulsie

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