Nicholas Roderick O'Conor

Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor (; 1843 – 19 March 1908) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat. When he died, Sir Nicholas was the British ambassador to Turkey.

Early life

He was born, the youngest of three sons, to Patrick A. C. O'Conor and Jane ( French), into a cadet branch of the Catholic O'Conor Don family of County Roscommon. He was raised on his family estate, Dun Dermot, on the Roscommon-County Galway border. He was educated at Stonyhurst College. and was a member of the Tory-sympathetic 'Lyons School' of British diplomacy. He was Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at Peking and Washington, Political Agent and Consul-General in Bulgaria.

Head of Mission O'Conor's first ministerial appointment was at the British Legation at Peking. 1895: In St. Petersburg, he was Ambassador of His Britannic Majesty in the Imperial court of the Russian Czar. 1898: In Constantinople, he was Ambassador to the Court of the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire.

Family

He was married to Minna Margaret Hope-Scott (1862-1934), daughter of James Robert Hope-Scott, Q.C. (1812–1873) and Lady Victoria Hope-Scott (1840–1870). They had three daughters:

Eldest daughter: Fearga Victoria Mary O'Conor (b. 1892, d. 22 March 1969), married her half first cousin, Rear-Admiral Malcolm Raphael Joseph Constable-Maxwell-Scott, son of Hon. Joseph Constable-Maxwell-Scott and Mary Monica Hope-Scott, on 6 September 1918. She died on 22 March 1969. They had three children: Sir Michael Fergus Constable-Maxwell-Scott, 13th Bt. of the Constable Maxwell-Scott baronets (b. 23 Jul 1921, d. 29 Nov 1989) Elizabeth Mary Constable-Maxwell-Scott (b. 28 May 1924, d. 1991) Ian Malcolm Constable-Maxwell-Scott (b. 18 July 1927, d. 27 November 1993)

Middle daughter: Muriel Margaret Minna O'Conor (b. 1894), married Charles Joseph Nevile, son of Ralph Henry Christopher Nevile, on 21 April 1919.

Youngest daughter: Eileen Winifred Madeleine O'Conor (1897-1963), married, in 1918, at the Brompton Oratory, to Romanian Prince Matyla Ghyka (1881–1965).

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