Sir Claude Macdonald Colonel Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald GCMG GCVO KCB PC (1852 – 1915) was a British diplomat. Sir Claud
Colonel Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald GCMG GCVO KCB PC (1852 – 1915) was a British diplomat. Sir Claude MacDonald, c. 1900MacDonald was educated at Uppingham School and Sandhurst, and was a soldier-diplomat, commissioned into the 74th Foot in 1872. He thought of himself as a 'soldier-outsider', as regards the Foreign Office. He presided over the Tokyo Legation in years of harmony between Britain and Japan (1900-12), swapping posts with Sir Ernest Satow who replaced him as Minister in Peking. As a military man, MacDonald led the defence of the foreign legations in 1900 which were under siege during the Boxer Rebellion, and he worked well with the Anglophile Japanese Colonel Shiba Goro. On January 30, 1902, the first Anglo-Japanese Alliance was signed in London between the Foreign Secretary Lord Lansdowne and Hayashi Tadasu, the Japanese Minister. MacDonald was still in Tokyo when the alliance was renewed in 1905 and 1911. He also became Britain's first ambassador to Japan when the status of the legation was raised to an embassy in 1905, and was made a Privy Councillor in 1906.
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