Walter Beaupré Townley

Sir Walter Beaupré Townley KCMG (8 January 1863 – 5 April 1945) was a British diplomat, who most notably served as the British Ambassador to the Netherlands during the final years of the First World War.

He entered the Foreign Office in 1885 and served at Paris, Teheran, Bucharest, Lisbon, Berlin, Rome, Peking, Constantinople and Washington, D.C.

[4] During his time in the Netherlands he had to engage in long negotiations on the fate of the exiled German Emperor, who arrived in November 1918.

She published My Chinese note book (Methuen, London, 1904) and a volume of reminiscences,‘Indiscretions’ of Lady Susan (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1922).

After her death in 1953, The Times said: Note: Lady Susan had higher precedence as the daughter of an earl than as the wife of a knight.