3-047-022 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Baron de Beaulieu, Belgian Ambassador, 1872. Engraving from a photograph by Deron, of Brussels. 'The death of Baron de Beaulieu, the late Belgian Ambassador at the court of Queen Victoria, has been announced in this Journal. He was one of the most eminent diplomatic servants of that small kingdom; and his appointment, in 1869, to succeed the estimable M. Van de Weyer as its official representative here, was generally approved. Napoleon Alcindor Beaulieu was born at Namur, in 1805, and first entered the army; but, after the Belgian Revolution of 1830, was attached, as secretary, to the special mission of General Goblet, who came to London for the negotiations to establish the independence of Belgium. He was appointed first secretary to the Berlin Legation in 1833, and in 1838 became chargé-d'affaires at that capital, whence he was removed in 1840 to Lisbon. In 1845 he was Belgian Minister at Washington; in 1849, at Copenhagen; in 1858, and till 1867, at Frankfort; but, after the overthrow of the Germanic Confederation, he represented Leopold II. at the Hague, before he came to London. He was elevated to the rank of Baron in 1857; he was a grand officer of the Order of Leopold, and of that of the Lion of the Netherlands'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.