Charles Kennedy (diplomat)

Early life

Diplomatic career

• His first deputation was to the Levant as president of a commission of inquiry into the Consular establishments
• British Commissioner in Paris in connection with the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation
• On several occasions questions relating to interchange of commerce between Great Britain and France took him to Paris, the last of them being when he assisted Sir Charles Dilke then Under-Foreign Secretary, to negotiate the subsisting Treaty.
• In conjunction with Sir Edward Malet, the arrangements with Italy in 1875 for the renewal of the commercial treaty signed eight years before.
• The Joint Channel Tunnel Commission
• Commission of commerce and industry at Brussels in 1880
• Senior British delegate to the North Sea Fisheries Conference in 1881 at The Hague
• Senior British delegate to various international conferences on the protection of submarine cables held in Paris from 1882 to 1886
• Representing Great Britain at a conference at The Hague for the restriction of the liquor traffic in the North Sea
• Representing Great Britain in the negotiations in Paris regarding the Channel Fisheries.

  Later life