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| | Iranica.com - HARDINGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Able, well-connected, and a friend of King Edward VII, he rose rapidly after a slow start to high office: he held the positions of Ambassador to Russia (1904-06), Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office (1906-10), Viceroy of India (1910-16), Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office again (1916-20) and Ambassador to France (1920-22). |
 | | The turning point in Hardinge's career had been his fifteen months as First Secretary at the British Legation in Tehran when, as charge d'affaires from February 1897 to March 1898, he won the good opinion of Lord Salisbury, the Prime Minister, and others for his part in settling a number of outstanding issues. |
 | | He was knighted in 1904, raised to the peerage in 1910, and made a Knight of the Garter in 1916. |
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