Emile de Cartier de Marchienne

Baron
Émile de Cartier de Marchienne
GCVO GBE GCSG
Emile de Cartier de Marchienne in 1920
Belgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office
1927–1946
Preceded byLudovic Moncher
Succeeded byAlain Obert de Thieusies
Belgian Ambassador to the United States
In office
1917–1927
Preceded byEmmanuel Havenith
Succeeded byAlbert de Ligne
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic
In office
1926–1927
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in China and Siam
In office
1910–1917
Personal details
Born(1871-11-30)30 November 1871
Schaerbeek, Belgium
Died10 May 1946(1946-05-10) (aged 74)
London, United Kingdom
Spouse(s)
Alice Draper Coburn
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(m. 1907; died 1908)​

Marie Dow Cary
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(m. 1919; died 1936)​
RelationsMarguerite Yourcenar (niece)
Parent(s)Paul-Émile de Cartier de Marchienne
Louisa Brown O'Meara
AwardsCivic Decoration, Order of Leopold, Order of the Sacred Treasure, Legion of Honour

Baron Émile-Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne (30 November 1871 – 10 May 1946) was a Belgian diplomat who was ambassador to a number of countries, most principally the United States and the United Kingdom.

Early life

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De Cartier de Marchienne was born on 30 November 1871 in Schaerbeek, Belgium. He was the son of Baron Paul-Émile de Cartier de Marchienne (1837–1887) and Louisa Jane Brown O'Meara (1849–1935), who had been born in London.[1] His family owned the Château Bilquin de Cartier, a château in Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium.[a]

Through his sister, Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne, he was uncle to the French novelist Marguerite Yourcenar.[1]

Career

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Envoy Andries de Graeff, Ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand; Georges Lauga; Rev. Leonard Hoyas; and Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, May 1924

In 1896, at only 25 years old, Baron de Cartier de Marchienne was put in charge of the Belgian legation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He served briefly before becoming secretary of the Belgian legation in Tokyo.[3]

From 1910 to 1917, he served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Peking, China and Siam. From 1917 to 1927,[4] he was head of the Belgian legation in Washington, D.C. (which was elevated to an embassy in 1919), while also serving as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic from 1926 to 1927.[5][6]

From 1927 until his death in 1946, which included all of World War II, he was the Belgian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, of which the last six he was Dean of the Diplomatic Corps.[7]

Personal life

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Photograph of his second wife, Marie, Baroness de Cartier de Marchienne, at the Amaryllis show, 1927

In New York in 1907, he married American Alice Draper Coburn (1876–1907), the daughter of Charles Henry Colburn and Frances Eudora (née Draper) Colburn. A niece of Governor Eben S. Draper, industrialist George A. Draper and diplomat William F. Draper, she was ill when they married, and died not long after on 25 November 1908 at her mother's home in Phoenix, Arizona.[8][3]

On 16 July 1919, he married American socialite Marie Emery (née Dow) Cary at the Church of the Madeleine in Paris,[9][10] the widow of Hamilton Wilkes Cary since 1917.[11][12] She had previously married, and divorced in 1909,[13][14] multi-millionaire Elihu B. Frost, President of the Submarine Boat Corporation.[9][15][16]

The Baroness died on 18 February 1936,[17] leaving a net estate worth $685,026.[18] As he had no children from either of his marriages, he adopted his distant relative, Louis de Cartier, in 1946 to keep the name "de Marchienne" in the family. The Baron de Cartier de Marchienne died on 10 May 1946 in London, United Kingdom.[3]

Honours and awards

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Baron de Cartier received honorary doctorates from Princeton University, Columbia University, Brown University, University of Rochester, Villanova University, as well as the Universities of Oxford, University of Edinburgh and University of Belfast.[3]

He was also awarded with:

References

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Notes
  1. ^ Château Bilquin de Cartier, located in the district of Charleroi, in the province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, passed into the Cartier family in 1717 when Marie-Agnès Bilquin (the daughter of Guillaume de Bilquin, who had bought château in 1695 and finished construction) married Jean-Louis Cartier, son of the general treasurer of the prince-bishop of Liège, becoming the property of the Cartier de Marchienne family.[2]
Sources
  1. ^ a b Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique (in French). 1890. p. 371. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  2. ^ Nicolas d'Ydewalle, "Guillaume de Bilquin, un aïeul bien dans ses papiers" Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b c d Times, Wireless To the New York (11 May 1946). "BARON DE CARTIER, BELGIAN ENVOY, 74; Ambassador to London, Dean of Corps, Is Dead--Served in Washinston, 1917-27". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  4. ^ "CHANGE IN AMBASSADORS.; Brussels Paper Says de Marchienne Will Go to London in July". The New York Times. 11 January 1927. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Collection: Robert Silvercruys Papers". findingaids.library.georgetown.edu. Georgetown University Archival Resources. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  6. ^ "BARON DE CARTIER'S TRANSFER". The New York Times. 4 June 1927. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  7. ^ Treaty between the United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal, Signed at Washington February 6, 1922
  8. ^ "Baroness Alice de Cartier de Marchienne". Oklahoma Farmer. 2 Dec 1908. p. 11. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  9. ^ a b "American Wives Preside Over Many Foreign Embassies" (PDF). New-York Tribune. 21 March 1920. p. 7. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  10. ^ Emery, Rufus (1890). Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery, of Newbury, Mass., 1590-1890. E. Cleaves. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-5486-2408-8. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  11. ^ "Social Register, Summer". Social Register Association. 1914. p. 52. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  12. ^ Times, Special to The New York (16 February 1917). "HAMILTON WILKES CARY.; Member of Prominent New York Clubs Dies at Palm Beach". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  13. ^ "Mrs. Frost Asks Divorce; Wife of President of Holland Submarine Company Files Suit in Nevada", The New York Times, December 3, 1909.
  14. ^ "Mrs. Marie Frost Divorced; Decree Granted to Her Behind Closed Doors in Reno", The New York Times, December 20, 1909.
  15. ^ Frost, Josephine C. (1912). The Frost Genealogy – Forgotten Books. Frederick H. Hitchcock, Genealogical Publisher. ISBN 9780598428813. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  16. ^ "ELIHU FROST ESTATE LEFT TO A WOMAN; Submarine Builder Made Mrs. Helen Evans Beneficiary; Cut Off Relatives. DISPOSITION TO BE FOUGHT Contestants Engage Six Law Firms -- Incompetency and Undue Influence Charged". The New York Times. 25 October 1925. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  17. ^ TIMES, Wireless to THE NEW YORK (19 February 1936). "MARIE DE CARTIER, ENVOY'S WIFE, DEAD; Baroness, Born in Boston and Widow of Turfman, Wed to Belgian Ambassador". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  18. ^ "BARONESS LEFT $685,026; Marie de Cartier, American-Born, Set Up Life Estates for Heirs". The New York Times. 9 June 1937. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  19. ^ RD of 18.9.1919
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