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- Sir Harford Jones Brydges, 1st Baronet, PC, DL (12 January 1764 – 17 March 1847) was a British diplomat and author. Born Harford Jones, he was the son of Harford Jones of Presteigne, Radnorshire, and his wife, Winifred née Hooper. On 16 February 1796, he married Sarah, the eldest daughter of Sir Henry Thomas Gott of Newland Park, Buckinghamshire, and widow of Robert Whitcombe; they had one son and two daughters. As a condition of the will of his cousin, Mary Brydges, who died in 1826 and in commemoration of his descent, through his maternal grandmother, from the family of Brydges of Old Colwall, Herefordshire, he assumed, by Royal Licence dated 4 May 1826, the additional name of Brydges. Early in life, Jones entered the service of the Honourable East India Company, working as an assistant and factor at Basra in 1783–94, and the Company's Resident in Baghdad in 1798–1806. He acquired great proficiency in oriental languages, and with the assistance of Robert Dundas's patronage, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, where he remained from 1807 to 1810. In 1807, he was created a baronet in recognition of him being the first formal diplomat to that country and the importance of the mission. His main achievement was the Preliminary Treaty of Friendship and Alliance of 1809 which effectively barred France from the route to India. He began the involvement of British military instructors in the Persian army and he prevented peace between Persia and Russia. On his return from Persia, seeing no immediate prospect of promotion in the service of the East India Company, he severed his connection with it. Throughout life, he cherished a warm interest in the welfare both of Persians and Indians. In politics, he was a decided Whig and took an active interest in the election contests of Radnorshire, where he founded a political association known as the Grey Coat Club. On 15 June 1831, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford. In 1835, he was sworn of the Privy Council, and in 1841 was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire. He died at his seat at Boultibrooke, near Presteigne, on 17 March 1847. He was the author of a number of published works (see bibliography below).
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- Sir Harford Jones Brydges, 1st Baronet, PC, DL (12 January 1764 – 17 March 1847) was a British diplomat and author. Born Harford Jones, he was the son of Harford Jones of Presteigne, Radnorshire, and his wife, Winifred née Hooper. On 16 February 1796, he married Sarah, the eldest daughter of Sir Henry Thomas Gott of Newland Park, Buckinghamshire, and widow of Robert Whitcombe; they had one son and two daughters.
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