Martin Gosselin
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Sir Martin le Marchant Hadsley Gosselin GCVO KCMG CB |
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Sir Martin Gosselin, 1904.
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| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal | |
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In office August 1902 – 26 February 1905 |
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| Preceded by | Hugh Guion MacDonell |
| Succeeded by | Francis Hyde Villiers |
| Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office July 1898 – August 1902 |
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2 November 1847 Walfield, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England |
| Died | 26 February 1905 (aged 57) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Katherine Frances Gerard (1856–1924), m. 10 August 1880 |
Sir Martin le Marchant Hadsley Gosselin GCVO, KCMG, CB (2 November 1847 – 26 February 1905) was a British diplomat who held the office of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal.
Martin Gosselin was born at Walfield, near Hertford, on 2 November. 1847. He was grandson of Admiral Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin and eldest son of Martin Hadsley Gosselin of Ware Priory and Blakesware, Hertfordshire, by his wife Frances Orris, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir John Marshall of Gillingham House, Kent.
Educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, he entered the diplomatic service in 1868, and after working in the Foreign Office was appointed attaché at Lisbon in 1869. He was transferred to Berlin in 1872, where he remained till promoted to be second secretary at Saint Petersburg in 1874. During the Congress of Berlin in 1878 he was attached to the special mission of the British plenipotentiaries, Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury. He was transferred from Saint Petersburg to Rome in 1879, returned to Saint Petersburg in the following year, and to Berlin in 1882. In 1885 he was promoted to be secretary of legation, and was appointed to Brussels, where he served till 1892, taking charge of the legation at intervals during the absence of the minister, and being employed on occasions on special service.
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