Victor Perowne

Sir John Victor Thomas Woolrych Tait Perowne KCMG KStJ FSA (30 July 1897 – 8 January 1951) was a British diplomat.

Career

The son of Edith Marione (née Browne) and John Thomas Woolrych Perowne who married in 1896, John Victor Thomas Woolrych Tait Perowne was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He served in the Scots Guards 1916–18 with the rank of lieutenant, and contributed a poem "A Dirge" to The Muse in Arms, an anthology of British war poetry.[1]

Perowne joined the Diplomatic Service and served in Madrid, Lisbon, Copenhagen and Paris as well as posts in the Foreign Office before being appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See in 1947. He died in office in Rome in 1951.[2]

Victor Perowne was appointed CMG in 1944 and knighted KCMG in 1950.

Personal life

Victor Perowne listed his recreations in Who's Who as "Art, music, literature". He married the Hon. Agatha Beaumont, youngest daughter of Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale, in 1933; they had one son.

See also
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Sir D'Arcy Osborne		 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See
1947 – 1951		 Succeeded by
Sir Walter Roberts

References
  1. Prose & Poetry - The Muse in Arms - A Dirge at FirstWorldWar.com
  2. Sir Victor Perowne's Funeral, The Catholic Herald, London, 19 January 1951
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