Diplomats and Statesmen
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Almelda - Francisco de ..... born c 1450 died 1510 ..... FIRST Viceroy of Portuguese India from 1505-08. He was killed in a skirmish with the Hottentots at Table Bay, South Africa
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Bell- Sir Charles ….. born 1870 died 1945 ..... diplomat in the service of the Raj, he took the FIRST ever photographs of a Dalai Lama in 1921. Until then it had been strictly taboo. His photograph is of the 13th Dalai Lama (1876-1933) shown seated in his audience chamber at the Norbulingka (Jewel Park), his summer palace
Bjornsson - Sveinn ..... born 1881 died 1952 ..... Icelandic diplomat and statesman who was the FIRST president of the republic of Iceland from 1944 to 1952
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Champlain - Samuel de ..... FIRST governor of French Canada he was born at Brouage, near La Rochelle in the Poitou- Charentes region
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Donner - Ossian ..... FIRST Finnish minister to the Court of St James
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Farquar - Col William ..... in 1819 he was the FIRST British Resident Governor in Singapore
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Griffith- Arthur ….. born 31st March 1872 died 1922 ….. FIRST President of the Irish Free State
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Harris - Townsend ..... U.S diplomat who served as the FIRST U.S Consul General to Japan from 1856 to 1860 and was the FIRST American to breach their legal and military barriers
Healy - Timothy….. born May 17th 1855 died 1931 ….. FIRST Governor-General of the Irish Free State(1922-28)
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Jinnah - Mohammed Ali ….. born 25th December 1876 died 11th September 1948 ..... created the Muslim state of Pakistan and became its FIRST governor-general
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MacQuarrie - General Lachlan ..... FIRST Governor of New South Wales, Australia
Modise - Johannes ..... born 1929 died 2001 ..... guerrilla commander who became the FIRST black defence minister in the new South Africa
Mountbatten - Louis Francis Victor Albert Nicholas, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ….. born 25th May 1900 died 1979 ..... younger son of Prince Louis Mountbatten and great-grandson of Queen Victoria, FIRST Governor-General of India
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Ouverture - Toussaint L' ….. who founded the world's FIRST black republic - Haiti - 1791
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Raffles- Sir Thomas Stanford ….. born 5th July 1781- 1826 ….. English colonial administrator and oriental scholar who was the founder of Singapore when he formed a settlement to counter Dutch influence in the area. He was also the founder and FIRST President of the London Zoo
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Spaak - Paul Henri ..... born 25th January 1899 died 1972 ..... Belgian statesman who was the FIRST socialist premier of Belgium and in 1946 was elected President of the FIRST UN General Assembly
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Weizmann - Chaim ..... born 1874 died 1952 ..... Zionist leader who became the FIRST president of the new republic of Israel in 1948
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Young - Andrew ..... in 1976 he became the FIRST African-American U.S ambassador to the United Nations