Francis Howard Vyse
1828–91
Diplomat. Eighth son of Richard William Howard Howard-Vyse of Stoke, Buckinghamshire. Appointed coronet, Royal Horse Guards Blue, 1844; lieutenant, 1847; captain, 1854; sold out, 1857. Appointed vice-consul, Yedo, Japan, 1859; acting consul, Kanagawa, 1859; consul, 1860; consul, Hakodate, 1862; transferred to Nagasaki, 1865. Resigned in disgrace, 7 December 1866, following the theft of buried Ainu skeletons.
Sources
Burke’s landed gentry 1965, Foreign Office list
Hoare 1975.
Bibliography
Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.
Foreign Office list: The Foreign Office list. London: Harrison & Sons. 1852–1965.
Hoare, J. E. 1975. Mr. Enslie’s grievances: the consul, the Ainu and the bones. [Read 17 December 1975.] Japan Society of London Bulletin 78 (March 1976): 14–19.
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