Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS[1] (19 August 1857 – 1 November 1941) was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author.

[2] He was the youngest son of Sir Frederick Vincent, 11th Baronet of Stoke D'Abernon (1798–1883)[2] and, his second wife, Maria Copley (d.

Instead, he spent five years as a member of the Coldstream Guards before coming into the service as secretary to Lord Edmond FitzMaurice, Queen's Commissioner on the East Rumelian Question.

[2] Vincent was appointed Commissioner for the Evacuation of Thessaly (ceded to Greece by Turkey)[2] and advised the Egyptian government on financial matters from 1883 to 1889.

This caused a speculation craze in Constantinople where tens of thousands of people bought South African mining shares, a lot of them with money loaned from the Ottoman Bank.

Vincent escaped through a skylight and notified the Turkish authorities at the Sublime Porte and secured a negotiator from the Russian Embassy.

The attackers agreed to surrender their bombs in exchange for safe passage to exile in France, being conducted on Sir Edgar's private vessel.

[5] In February 1922 he criticised the idea of a military alliance between Britain and France: The fundamental criticism...is that England undertakes definite and very extensive responsibilities in order to avoid a danger which she believes to be largely imaginary.

[6]On 9 February 1925 D'Abernon wrote that it was necessary "to abandon the view that Germans are such congenital liars that there is no practical advantage in obtaining from them any engagement or declaration.

[9] After his retirement from the foreign service, D'Abernon devoted his time to directorships of numerous domestic organisations such as the Lawn Tennis Association, the Race Course Betting Control Board, the Medical Research Council, and the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, and the Royal Mint advisory committee.