Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837–1886)
Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1886–1916)
1837–1916
Diplomat, civil servant, and author. Second secretary at the British embassy, St Petersburg, 1863. In Peking (Beijing), 1865; Japan, 1866–70. Secretary to the Board of Works, 1874–86. Wrote books on Japan. Added Freeman to his name in 1886, on inheriting the wealth but not the title of his cousin the Earl of Redesdale. Created Baron Redesdale, 1902.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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