Montague Yeats-Brown

Montague Yeats-Brown CMG[1] was a 19th-century British Consul in both Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia[2] and Boston, USA.[1][3][4][5]

Yeats-Brown was born in 1834 in Genoa in the Kingdom of Sardinia. His father, Timothy Yeats-Brown, from an English banking family, was the previous consul there;[6] his maternal grandfather John Cadwalader was a militia general in the American Revolution.

Yeats-Brown was appointed British consul to Genoa on the death of his father in 1857.[2] He later was appointed to consul to Boston, retiring from the service in 1896.[5]

In 1867, Yeats-Brown[6] purchased Castello Brown in Portofino, which he restored over subsequent years, and where he died in 1921.[7]

One of his sons, Francis Yeats-Brown, became well known for his dashing autobiography, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.

See also

List of diplomats of Great Britain to the Republic of Genoa

References

  1. 1 2 "Person Page - 13883". The Peerage. Retrieved October 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. 1 2 "Francis Yeats-Brown". Student Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. ↑ "ENTERTAINING THE NAVAL VISITORS.; British Officers Given Freedom of Boston Clubs -- Theatre Party.". 26 May 1894. Retrieved October 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. ↑ "Caught by Surprise: Letter Found in Rare Book Collection". Middle East Institute. Retrieved October 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  5. 1 2 "The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art". 129. J. W. Parker and Son. 1920: 447.
  6. 1 2 nl:Yeats Brown
  7. ↑ "Ancestry.com". Retrieved October 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)


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