Hugh Wyndham (diplomat)

Sir George Hugh Wyndham KCMG CB JP (18 November 1836 – 10 February 1916) was a British diplomat who was minister to Serbia, Brazil and Romania.

George Hugh Wyndham was educated at Harrow School and Exeter College, Oxford[1] and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1857.

He then served as consul-general at Warsaw and subsequently as Secretary of the legations or embassies at Athens, Madrid, St Petersburg and Constantinople (where in 1883 it fell to him, as Chargé d'Affaires to the Sublime Porte, to sign a declaration amending the convention for the suppression of the slave trade that had been agreed between the UK government and the Sultan of Turkey in 1880[2]).

During this period he witnessed a bloodless military coup in November 1889 that overthrew the Empire of Brazil, exiled the last Emperor, Pedro II and established a republic.

Hugh Wyndham was appointed CB in 1878[9] for his services in Athens during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and knighted KCMG in 1894[10] for his work in Brazil.