page_title: Horace James Seymour
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Horace James Seymour / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: The Cypriot ambassador's residence (since 1974) located at 1825 24th Street, NW in the Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Embassy of Cyprus is located nearby at 2211 R Street, NW. Built in 1905, the Beaux-Arts style house is a contributing property to the Sheridan-Kalorama Historic District. Its 2009 property value is $3,126,920. In addition to Cypriot ambassadors (Ambassador Andreas Kakouris is the current resident), notable past occupants of the home include Alfred Mitchell-Innes (Counselor of the Embassy of Great Britain), Horace James Seymour (Third Secretary of the Embassy of Great Britain), John Van Antwerp MacMurray (U.S. diplomat, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State), Frank Sinatra (U.S. entertainer), Peter Malatesta (Aide to U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew), and Arthur Krock (U.S. journalist).
context_page_description: Sir Horace James Seymour GCMG CVO was a British diplomat, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to China from 1942 to 1946.
context_section_description: Seymour entered the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service in 1908. He was Second Secretary at the British Embassy to the United States in 1919, First Secretary in the Netherlands in 1923 and in Italy in 1925, then from 1932 to 1936 Principal Private Secretary to the British Foreign Secretary. He was next British Minister ('Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary') in Tehran, from 1936 to 1939, Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, 1939 to 1942, and then British Ambassador to China, from 1942 to 1946. He retired in 1947.
  Between April 1947 and July 1947, he was a member of the Franco-Siamese Boundary Commission in Washington, D.C., and in December 1947 was appointed chairman of the British Delegation to the Balkans Commission, based at Salonika, in Greece.
caption: Horace James Seymour's former residence in Washington, D.C.
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