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138:. He remained accredited in Russia until 1712, but was increasingly absent on diplomatic business elsewhere in eastern Europe. He was charged by Queen Anne to discover and evaluate high-level Russian strategies. He closely observed public events and noted the changing the power status of key leaders. He cultivated influential and knowledgeable persons at the royal court, and befriended foreigners in Russia's service, and in turn they provided insights into high-level Russian planning and personalities, which he summarized and sent in code to London. He wrote an 22: 258: 145:
In December 1713, he was appointed as one of the commissaries to treat with the French concerning the Treaty of Navigation and Commerce concluded at Utrecht. In April 1714 he was sent to
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Whitworth returned to Berlin in 1719, where the following year, he married the comtesse de Vaulgremont (died 1734), the daughter of a government official in
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monopoly granted it in 1698. He succeeded in this between 1707 and 1711, but not in the wider object of obtaining a
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T. L. Labutina, "Britanskii Diplomat I Razvedchik Charl'z Uitvort Pri Dvore Petra I."
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to observe negotiations between the emperor and France, taking place at
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Whitworth entered diplomatic service in 1700 as secretary to
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for Stepney, when he was absent from the embassy there.
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Ambassadors of Great Britain to the Holy Roman Emperor
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Westminster Abbey - Charles Whitworth, Baron of Galway
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that summer. This was followed by his appointment as
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in 1694. He graduated with a BA in 1699 and became a
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British ambassador to Russia
Eccleshall
Staffordshire
Westminster School
Queen's Scholar
Trinity College, Cambridge
Fellow
George Stepney
Berlin
the Holy Roman Emperor
Regensburg
Vienna
Ambassador Extraordinary
Russia
Russia Company
tobacco
commercial treaty
the emperor
Andrey Matveyev
Great Northern War
Augsburg
Baden
British minister
Eternal Imperial Diet
Regensburg
envoy
The Hague
Netherlands
Sweden

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