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Friendship cannot live with ceremony nor without civility.Lord Halifax
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The past is the best way to suppose what may come.Lord Halifax
3 Quotes & Sayings By Lord Halifax
Lord Louis George Alexander John Cadogan (19 June 1891 – 1 January 1988), known by his courtesy style of "Lord Cadogan", was a British diplomat. Born in London, he was the son of Reginald William Cadogan, 4th Earl Cadogan. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford where he was a member of the Bullingdon Club. He served in the First World War with the Royal Fusiliers, being wounded in action at Ginchy in 1915
From 1920 to 1929, he served in the Foreign Office. In 1929 he was appointed Ambassador to the United States by Ramsay MacDonald, served in Washington from 1930 to 1931, and then returned to London as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1931 to 1935. On 6 August 1935, he married Caroline Charlotte Coke (1895–1980), daughter of William Coke (1854–1931) and Florence Annie Mary Coke (b.
1856). Tributes were paid to Lord Cadogan's career after his death in 1988. He was appointed to succeed Lord Simon on 3 July 1938 in succession to Neville Chamberlain as Governor General of Canada.
His wife became the first Duchess of York when she married Prince Alexander Edward Walpole-Gibb when he became Prince Alexander on 10 October 1938. Lord Halifax died in London on 1 January 1988, aged 89.