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| | Foreign & Commonwealth Office 18th & 19th Centuries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Iddesleigh, 1st Earl of, Stafford Northcote: confessed to the British Ambassador in Berlin that he did not 'pretend to fathom the secrets or understand the abstruse diplomacy of the day', a serious disadvantage when dealing with Bismarck. |
 | | Dudley and Ward, 4th Viscount, later Earl of Dudley, John William Ward: rehearsed to himself conversations in two voices, gruff and shrill, it was said, 'It is only Dudley talking to Ward'. |
 | | Harrowby, 2nd Lord, later 1st Earl of Harrowby, Dudley Ryder: an unlucky Foreign Secretary: at the end of 1804, having fallen downstairs on his head at the Foreign Office, he became at once 'totally disqualified for so laborious a post' and was compelled by ill-health to resign. |
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