Victor Perowne

Sir John Victor Thomas Woolrych Tait Perowne KCMG KStJ FSA (30 July 1897 – 8 January 1951) was a British diplomat.

The son of Edith Marione (née Browne) and John Thomas Woolrych Perowne who married in 1896, John Victor Thomas Woolrych Tait Perowne was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

He served in the Scots Guards 1916–18 with the rank of lieutenant, and contributed a poem "A Dirge" to The Muse in Arms, an anthology of British war poetry.

[1] Perowne joined the Diplomatic Service and served in Madrid, Lisbon, Copenhagen and Paris as well as posts in the Foreign Office before being appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See in 1947.

Victor Perowne listed his recreations in Who's Who as "Art, music, literature".