Question: In 1940, James Lonsdale-Bryans travelled to Italy, he unsuccessfully attempted to arrange a meeting with, which British Field Marshal General? 

Context articles: Bernard Montgomery
French aircraft carrier Foch (R99)
Generalfeldmarschall
James Lonsdale-Bryans
Patriot's Certificate
Marshal General of France
Mikhail Skobelev
Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature
Lieutenant field marshal
William Dewsbury

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, ( ; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty" and the "Spartan General", was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First World War and the Second World War.
Foch (] ) was the second "Clemenceau"-class aircraft carrier of the French Navy.
 The carrier was the second warship named in honour and after the Marshal of France, British Field Marshal and Marshal of Poland Ferdinand Foch.
 Serving with the French Navy from 1963 to 2000, the vessel was sold to Brazil and renamed "São Paulo".
Generalfeldmarschall (English: general field marshal, field marshal general, or field marshal ;    ; abbreviated to Feldmarschall) was a rank in the armies of several German states and the Holy Roman Empire; in the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, the rank "Feldmarschall" was used.
 The rank was the equivalent to "Großadmiral" (English: Grand admiral ) in the "Kaiserliche Marine" and "Kriegsmarine", a five-star rank, comparable to OF-10 in today's NATO naval forces.
In 1940, Lonsdale-Bryans travelled to Italy to meet Ulrich von Hassell, the German ambassador to Italy.
 He believed von Hassell would be receptive to the idea of a pact between Britain and Germany at the outbreak of World War II.
 The terms of this pact were that Germany would have a free hand in Europe in return for Britain running the rest of the world.
 However, he unsuccessfully attempted to arrange a meeting with both U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British General Bernard Montgomery.
The Patriot’s Certificate (in Italian "Certificato al Patriota") is a document that was given to the partisans of the Italian resistance movement during and after the Second World War, firmed by the British field marshal Harold Alexander, commander of Allied forces in Italy, attestating the active collaboration with the Allied forces against the Axis forces.
The title Marshal General of France or more exactly "Marshal General of the King's camps and armies" ("maréchal général des camps et armées du roi") was given to signify that the recipient had authority over all the French armies in the days when a Marshal usually governed only one army.
 This dignity was bestowed only on Marshals of France, usually when the dignity of Constable of France was unavailable or, after 1626, suppressed.
Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev (29 September 1843 – 7 July 1882) was a Russian general famous for his conquest of Central Asia and heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.
 Dressed in white uniform and mounted on a white horse, and always in the thickest of the fray, he was known and adored by his soldiers as the "White General" (and by the Turks as the "White Pasha").
 During a campaign in Khiva, his Turkmen opponents called him "goz zanli" or "Bloody Eyes".
 British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery wrote that Skobelev was the world's "ablest single commander" between 1870 and 1914 and called him a "skilful and inspiring" leader.
The position of Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford was founded in 1918 shortly after the end of the First World War.
 Ferdinand Foch, or "Marshal Foch", was supreme commander of Allied forces from April 1918 onwards.
 The Chair was endowed by an arms trader, Basil Zaharoff, in Foch's honour; he also endowed a post in English Literature at the University of Paris in honour of the British Field Marshal Earl Haig.
 Zaharoff wanted the University of Paris to have a right of veto over the appointment, but Oxford would not accept this.
 The compromise reached was that Paris should have a representative on the appointing committee (although this provision was later removed).
 In advance of the first election, Stéphen Pichon (the French Foreign Minister) unsuccessfully attempted to influence the decision.
 The first professor, Gustave Rudler, was appointed in 1920.
 s of 2015 , the Chair is held by Catriona Seth.
 The position is held in conjunction with a Fellowship of All Souls College.
Lieutenant field marshal, also frequently historically field marshal lieutenant (German: "Feldmarschall-Leutnant" , formerly "Feldmarschallleutnant", historically also "Feldmarschall-Lieutenant" and, in official Imperial and Royal Austrian army documents from 1867 always "Feldmarschalleutnant", abbreviated "FML"), was a senior army rank in certain European armies of the 17th to 20th centuries.
 It emerged as the rank of field marshal (German: "Feldmarschall" ) came to be used for the highest army commander in the 17th century (having originally been the equivalent of a cavalry colonel).
 In German-speaking countries the commander-in-chief usually appointed an "under marshal" ("Untermarschall") or "lieutenant field marshal" to support and represent the field marshal.
 Amongst his functions as the personal deputy to the field marshal, were the supervision of supply depots and routes, and inspection of the guards.
William Dewsbury ("ca."
 1621–1688) was Quaker minister in the early period of the movement.
 He was born in Allerthorpe, Yorkshire, around 1621.
 Little is known about his parents and education, apart from the fact that his father died when he was eight years old.
 Deswbury studied both scripture and other religious texts from an early age.
 Until around the age of 13 he worked as a shepherd in Allerthorpe - after which he became an apprentice to a weaver in Holbeck.
 In 1642, his brief experience in the Parliamentary Army led him to reject fighting with ‘carnall’ weapons on religious grounds.
 Dewsbury travelled to Edinburgh, having become interested in Presbyterianism, but was disappointed by the formality of the Scottish faith.
 It is unknown when Dewsbury married, but a date of around 1649 has been proposed.
 It is known that his wife, whose first name was Ann, came from York, and that they were married in an Anabaptist ceremony.
 The couple unsuccessfully attempted to regain some former property of Ann Dewsbury, which had been taken by her brother, in court.
 In 1651 he met the prominent English Dissenter and early Quaker George Fox in the house of a Lieutenant Roper, near Balsby.
 Also present were Thomas Goodaire, James Nayler and Richard Farnsworth.
 In 1652 he became a Quaker minister, and travelled through Westmoreland, Cumberland and Lancashire preaching.
 During this journey, both Dewsbury and Robert Widders, an associate, were attacked by a group of Baptists while speaking in Carlisle, and Widders was later imprisoned.
 He spoke in Sedbergh in 1653, and was imprisoned in York after being accused of blasphemy by a local priest in 1654.
 However, he was set free by proclamation soon afterwards when the authorities realised that the evidence against him was spurious.