1. John Hanbury-Williams served on the International Olympic Committee, representing Canada between 1911 and 1921.
19 Facts About John Hanbury-Williams
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John Hanbury-Williams was the youngest son of Ferdinand Hanbury-Williams, of Coldbrook Park, Monmouthshire.
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John Hanbury-Williams was ADC to Lieutenant General Sir E Hamley in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882.
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John Hanbury-Williams was extra ADC to Sir M E Grant Duff, Governor of Madras in 1884 and 1885.
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John Hanbury-Williams was Adjutant of the 3rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry from 1892 to 1897.
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John Hanbury-Williams served in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1900 and was mentioned in despatches.
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John Hanbury-Williams was Military Secretary to Sir Alfred Milner from 1897 to 1900 and Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War from 1900 to 1903.
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John Hanbury-Williams was the Canadian Governor-General's Secretary and Military Secretary from 1904 to 1909.
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John Hanbury-Williams was employed on the General Staff in 1914.
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John Hanbury-Williams was popular with the Russian leaders because he was a relative of Charles Hanbury Williams.
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John Hanbury-Williams later wrote a book titled The Emperor Nicholas II, as I knew him, published in 1922.
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John Hanbury-Williams was in charge of the British Prisoners of War Department at The Hague from August 1917 to March 1918 and at Bern from April 1918 to December 1918.
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John Hanbury-Williams was Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of England from 1920 to 1934.
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John Hanbury-Williams was Colonel Commandant of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry from 1918 to the time of his death when he was succeeded in the post by General Sir Bernard Paget.
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John Hanbury-Williams was Extra Equerry to the King from 1934.
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John Hanbury-Williams was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1899, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1917.
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John Hanbury-Williams married Annie Emily, youngest daughter of Emil Reiss, in 1888, with whom he was to have four children.
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Partly as a result of what he had seen at first hand in Russia during the First World War, John Hanbury-Williams became a fierce opponent of Bolshevism, and was a founding member of the Liberty League which was formed in the United Kingdom after the War with a view to combat the spread of this political creed.
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In later life Sir John Hanbury-Williams resided in an apartment in the Henry III Tower at Windsor Castle, where he died on 19 October 1946, on his eighty-seventh birthday.