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Montague Yeats-Brown

Genoa, 1834 - 1921, Twyford, England

BiographyMontague Yeats-Brown CMG[1] (1834-1921) was a British diplomat, first in Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia[2] and then in Boston, USA.[1][3][4][5]
Yeats-Brown was born in 1834 in Genoa, where he grew up speaking Genoese, Italian, German and English.[6]:25[7]:6
His father, Timothy Yeats-Brown, from an English banking family, was the Consul there;[8] his maternal grandfather John Cadwalader was a militia general in the American Revolution. "Monty" attended a German school in Brussels before passing into Marlborough College.[9]
Yeats-Brown was appointed British consul to Genoa on the death of his father in 1857,[2] "though only then 23, which is unusually young for such a post".[7] He was appointed as consul to Boston in 1893,[7]:4 retiring from the diplomatic service in 1896.[5]
In 1867, Yeats-Brown[8] purchased Castello Brown above Portofino,[6]:25 which he restored over subsequent years, and where he died in 1921.[10]
One of his sons, Francis Yeats-Brown, became well known for his dashing autobiography The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_Yeats-Brown DJackson 5/18/2021]

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