Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, GCB, GCH (1780–1855) was an Irish diplomat. He was at Harrow and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1800, entered the diplomatic service, and in the following year succeeded to the title of Viscount Strangford in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1817, he married Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas Burke, Bt.

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  • Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, GCB, GCH (1780–1855) was an Irish diplomat. He was at Harrow and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1800, entered the diplomatic service, and in the following year succeeded to the title of Viscount Strangford in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1817, he married Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas Burke, Bt. He was ambassador to Portugal (1806), Sweden (1817), Ottoman Turkey (1820), and Russia (1825), and translated the Rimas of Luís de Camões, and was created Baron Penshurst in the United Kingdom. His son, George, was an active figure in the Young England movement of the early 1840s. In 1807, as Britain's envoy to Portugal, Lord Strangford coordinated the Portuguese royal family's flight from Portugal to Brazil. As ambassador to the Sublime Porte, he had opportunities to assemble fragments of Greek sculpture. Among his collection of antiquities was the "Strangford Shield", a 3rd century CE Roman marble that reproduces the shield of Athena Parthenos, Phidias' sculpture formerly in the Parthenon. The "Strangford Shield" is conserved in the British Museum.
  • Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, sexto vizconde de Strangford, embajador de su país ante los reyes de Portugal, en ese país y en Brasil; es conocido en la historia argentina simplemente como Lord Strangford.
  • Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, sexto visconde de Strangford, também conhecido como Lorde Strangford, foi um diplomata irlandês, embaixador do Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda em Lisboa à época das guerras decorrentes da invasão Napoleônica na península ibérica. Educado em Harrow School, Lorde Strangford graduou-se no Trinity College de Dublin em 1800, iniciando sua carreira diplomática e herdando o título Visconde Strangford no ano seguinte. Tornou-se embaixador do Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda em Lisboa à época das guerras decorrentes da invasão napoleônica na península ibérica. Também foi o embaixador britânico na Suécia, na Turquia e na Rússia. Lorde Strangford transladou-se para o Rio de Janeiro acompanhando toda a corte portuguesa, quando essa se refugiou no Brasil, em 27 de novembro de 1807. Traduziu Rimas de Luís de Camões para o inglês. Em 1825, foi titulado Barão Penshurst, no Pariato do Reino Unido.
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  • 1801–1855
  • 1825–1855
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  • Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, GCB, GCH (1780–1855) was an Irish diplomat. He was at Harrow and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1800, entered the diplomatic service, and in the following year succeeded to the title of Viscount Strangford in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1817, he married Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas Burke, Bt.
  • Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, sexto vizconde de Strangford, embajador de su país ante los reyes de Portugal, en ese país y en Brasil; es conocido en la historia argentina simplemente como Lord Strangford.
  • Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, sexto visconde de Strangford, também conhecido como Lorde Strangford, foi um diplomata irlandês, embaixador do Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda em Lisboa à época das guerras decorrentes da invasão Napoleônica na península ibérica. Educado em Harrow School, Lorde Strangford graduou-se no Trinity College de Dublin em 1800, iniciando sua carreira diplomática e herdando o título Visconde Strangford no ano seguinte.
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  • Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
  • Lord Strangford
  • Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe
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