Edward Hertslet

Sir Edward Hertslet (3 February 1824 – 4 August 1902) was an English librarian of the Foreign Office, known as an author of reference works.

Born at 16 College Street, Westminster, on 3 February 1824, he was youngest son of Lewis Hertslet, from a Swiss background, by his first wife, Hannah Harriet Jemima Cooke.

Educated privately near Hounslow, he was on 23 March 1840 temporarily attached to the library of the Foreign Office under his father, who was then librarian.

[1] Hertslet was involved in Foreign Office work through memoranda by him matching history, geography, or international law with major public questions which came before the government.

[1] After 1873, when John Brodribb Bergne died, Hertslet took his place as adviser on treaty matters.

[3][1] Hertslet married Eden (died 1899), daughter of John Bull, clerk of the journals of the House of Commons.

Sketch map of the Russo-Turkish frontier in Asia. According to the Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano and fixed by The Treaty of Berlin , from The Map of Europe by Treaty compiled by Edward Hertslet