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Chief Among The Personnel At The Foreign Office Is The Permanent Under-secretary, The Senior Civil Servant Who Oversees The Department And Advises The Foreign Secretary. This Book Is A Study Of The Twelve Men Who Held This Office From 1854-1946.--book Jacket. Edmund Hammond (1854-1873) -- Lord Tenterden (1873-1882) -- Sir Julian Pauncefote (1882-1889) -- Sir Philip Currie (1889-1893) -- Sir Thomas Sanderson (1894-1906) -- Sir Charles Hardinge (i) (1906-1910) -- Sir Arthur Nicolson (1906-1916) -- Sir Charles Hardinge (ii) (1916-1920) -- Sir Eyre Crowe (1920-1925) -- Sir William Tyrrell (1925-1928) And Sir Ronald Lindsay (1928-1929) -- Sir Robert Vansittart (1930-1937) -- Sir Alexander Cadogan (1938-1946). Keith Neilson And T.g. Otte. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [339]-358) And Index.