Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton
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The Right Honourable The Lord Acton KCVO JP DL |
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Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton in 1922
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| British Ambassador to Finland | |
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In office 1919–1920 |
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| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | Coleridge Kennard |
| Succeeded by | George Jardine Kidston |
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Richard Maximilian Dalberg-Acton 7 August 1870 |
| Died | 16 June 1924 (aged 53) |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Lyon (1904–1924) |
| Occupation | Diplomat, politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Richard Maximilian Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton KCVO JP DL (7 August 1870 – 16 June 1924) was a British peer and diplomat, ultimately Britain's first Ambassador to Finland in 1919–20.
Dalberg-Acton was born in Bavaria, in the then German Empire, first and only surviving son of John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton and his German wife, Countess Marie Anna Ludomilla Euphrosina von Arco auf Valley. He completed his education in England at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Dalberg-Acton entered the British Foreign Office in 1894. He began a career in Europe as Third Secretary in the Diplomatic Service at the British Embassy in Berlin in 1896. He was promoted Second Secretary in 1900 and served in the Berlin embassy until 1902, also the year he succeeded to his father's peerage.
He then served as Second Secretary at successive embassies in Vienna from 1902;Berne, Switzerland; Madrid in 1906–07, and The Hague.
In 1911 he was promoted First Secretary, in which grade he was charge d'affaires at Darmstadt and Karlsruhe in Germany until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. He served again in Switzerland as Counsellor of Embassy at Berne in 1915–16, and became Consul-General in Zürich in 1917. In 1919 he became first British Ambassador in recently independent Finland at Helsinki, then retired from the Foreign Office in 1920.
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