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between the two countries. Although Hammond described his situation as "new, critical and rather embarrassing", he also stated that "If I accepted a quarter of the invitations to dinner and tea parties which I receive I should have little time for business", and said of the leading families that "I
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in 1797, and Hammond acted as joint-editor. Hammond would later be sent to one or two posts in continental Europe, and sometime in the 1810s he was appointed as a commissioner on the Arbitration of Revolutionary Indemnities, and as such spent many years living alternatively in London and Paris.
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The titles (including spelling) and dates in the timeline come directly from these papers. They continue: "In the year 1806, when Mr. Hammond was entitled, from length of service, to a pension of 1,200
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Hammond left his post on 14 August 1795, leaving the consul general at Philadelphia, Phineas Bond, in charge until Robert Liston arrived in America.
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lacked both a fixed seat of government and single leader to accredit an envoy, and few qualified diplomats desired the post and its yearly salary of
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before an American minister to England was chosen; his reception on 11 November 1791 formally established
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Hammond had four children, aged oldest to youngest: William Andrew, George, Margaret, Edmund. His son,
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2,500. David Hartley, himself approached for the position, recommended his former secretary Hammond to
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Under secretary of state for foreign affairs (10 October 1795 – 20 February 1806)
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Despite American grumbles over the lack of a British envoy since the peace treaty concluded the
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Under secretary of state for foreign affairs (5 April 1807 – 11 November 1809)
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Friendly Relations: A Narrative of Britain's Ministers and Ambassadors to America, 1791–1930
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Minister plenipotentiary to the United States (5 July 1791 – 30 October 1795)
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Guide to the Materials in London Archives for the History of the United States Since 1783
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Secretary of legation at Copenhagen (20 February 1790 – 23 September 1790)
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Commissioner for British claims on France (September 1814 – July 1828)
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Following his return from the United States, Hammond became an Undersecretary at the
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Paullin, Charles Oscar; Paxson, Frederic Logan (1914). "George Hammond 1791–1795".
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Secretary of embassy at Madrid (24 September 1790 – 5 July 1791)
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Charge d'Affairs at Vienna (21 September 1788 – 10 October 1789)
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Secretary to Mr. Hartley's mission at Paris (1783 – 1784)
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in 1783, the decision for the British was by no means a simple one. The
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List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to the United States
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The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800
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Hammond died in 1853 at the age of eighty-nine or ninety.
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George Hammond (civil servant)
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British Minister to the United States
East Riding of Yorkshire
Edmund
Merton College, Oxford
FRGS
diplomat
envoys
United States
East Riding of Yorkshire
Merton College, Oxford
13 colonies
Kingdom of Great Britain
Treaty of Paris
David Hartley
Vienna
Copenhagen
Madrid
American revolution
Articles of Confederation
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Charles Jenkinson
Foreign Secretary
William Grenville
Philadelphia
Edward Thornton
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington

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