Arthur James Herbert (diplomat)

In the early years of his service, he was posted at Petrograd, Washington, D.C., Buenos Aires, Tehran, Brussels, Bern, Stockholm and Copenhagen.

[1] In August 1902, he was appointed Consul-General at Budapest,[4][5] and the following year he became chargé d'affaires at Darmstadt (Hesse) and Karlsruhe (Baden).

[6] Shortly afterwards he bought the Villa Frognæs, built in 1859 for the banker Thomas Heftye and recognized as one of the finest private residences in the city, to be the British Legation.

The Foreign Office had strongly recommended a rental property, but Herbert argued that with the new Norwegian king, Haakon VII, married to a British princess, it was imperative for Britain to establish a first-class legation there, and the British Treasury approved the purchase early in 1906.

[14][15] After his retirement, Sir Arthur and Lady Herbert returned to America and vacationed amongst her family, including at Newport and Tuxedo Park, New York.