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RARE "1st Baron Rennell" Rennell Rodd Cut Signature:
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James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron 1858 – 26 July 1941), known as Sir Rennell Rodd before

1933, was a British diplomat,

poet and politician. He served as World War. Rodd was

the only son of Major James Rennell

Rodd (1812–1892) and his wife Elizabeth Anne Thomson, daughter of Anthony Todd Thomson. On

his father's side he descended from the geographer James Rennell. Rodd was educated at Haileybury and Balliol College, Oxford,

where he was associated with the circle of Oscar Wilde. Wilde later assisted Rodd in securing publication

for his first book of verse, Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf, for which

Wilde provided an introduction. As Wilde began to court scandal in his public

career, their friendship subsequently cooled. He entered the Diplomatic Service in 1883 and

served in minor positions at the British embassies in Berlin, Rome, Athens and Paris. From 1894 to 1902 Rodd

worked under the Consul-General of Egypt Lord Cromer. He played an important

part in negotiating the Anglo-Ethiopian

Treaty of 1897 with Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia. In late 1901 he was appointed First

Secretary at the embassy in Rome,[1] where he arrived in 1902 and remained for the next two

years. In 1904 Rodd was made Minister plenipotentiary to Sweden (and until November 1905, Norway), but did not arrive until 17 January 1905. He played an

active and neutral part in the dissolution of the Union between Sweden and Norway, for which he was

rewarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star by King Oscar II. After the secession he

continued as a Minister in Sweden until 1908. The latter year he was

appointed Ambassador to Italy. He was to remain in this post until

1919, and played a key role in securing Italy's adhesion to the Entente cause. Rodd left the Diplomatic Service in 1919

but nonetheless served on the mission to Egypt in

1920 with Lord Milner and

was British delegate to the League of Nations from 1921 to 1923. He also sat as Unionist Member of 1928 and 1932. Apart from his diplomatic

services Rodd was also a published poet and scholar of ancient Greece and Rome. He published his memoirs, entitled Social and

Diplomatic Memories, in three volumes between 1922 and 1925. His diaries

were published in 1981 by Torsten Burgman, and edited by Victor Lal in 2005. 

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