Henry Alfred Cumberbatch[1] CMG[1] (27 June 1858[1] – 3 December 1918[1]) was a British diplomat who served as a consul in Romania, Turkey and Lebanon.
[1][4] August 1, 1876, at the age of 18, Cumberbatch was appointed student dragoman in the embassy in Constantinople.
[2][3] Cumberbatch followed his father into the diplomatic service, being appointed vice-consul at Bucharest, Romania, on 26 July 1879,[5] later transferring to Sulina, before being promoted to consul at Adrianople in the Ottoman Empire (now Edirne, Turkey) on 20 March 1888.
[8] He was appointed consul at Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) on 18 November 1896,[9] and consul-general there from 1 April 1900.
[1][11] Their children were: Present descendants include his great-grandson, actor Benedict Cumberbatch, son of actor Timothy Carlton and grandson of Henry Carlton[17] as well as descendants of Robert Cecil[15] who married Nora Skender of Athens and Ida Sybil who married Henry Alwyn Barker of Alexandria.