Sir Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham KCMG (9 July 1869 – 6 January 1938)[1] was a British diplomat.
Born in Preston, the son of Joshua Milne Cheetham, MP, he was educated at Rossall School, from which he won a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford.
He served in Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Rome and Rio de Janeiro before being sent to Cairo in January 1910.
When the United Kingdom declared its protectorate over Egypt in December 1914, he became acting High Commissioner, pending the arrival of Sir Henry McMahon.
His first wife was Anastasia Muravieva (aka Mouravieff) CBE (died 1976),[7] stepdaughter of Nikolay Muraviev, the Russian Empire's Minister of Justice and later ambassador to Italy.