page_title: Julian Pauncefote, 1st Baron Pauncefote
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Julian Pauncefote, 1st Baron Pauncefote / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Baron Pauncefote memorial The inscription reads .... To the dearly loved memory of the Right Honourable Julian Baron Pauncefote of Preston GCB GCMG, first Ambassador to the United States of America. Born September 13th 1828, died in Washington May 24th 1902. Blessed are the peacemakers 5.Matt.9.v
context_page_description: Julian Pauncefote, 1st Baron Pauncefote GCB GCMG PC, known as Sir Julian Pauncefote between 1874 and 1899, was a British barrister, judge and diplomat. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1882 and 1889 when he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, an office that was upgraded to that of Ambassador to the United States in 1893. Elevated to the peerage as Baron Pauncefote in 1899, he died in office in 1902.
context_section_description: Lord Pauncefote died in office at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. in May 1902, aged 73. His formal state funeral took place at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, where his daughter had been married. His remains were transferred back to the United Kingdom in the USS Brooklyn, and were buried in the churchyard at East Stoke in Nottinghamshire on 15 July 1902. The peerage became extinct at his death as he left no surviving male heirs.
caption: Pauncefote memorial in the churchyard of East Stoke in Nottinghamshire, parish church of the Bromley Baronets of Stoke Hall, into which family his daughter had married
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