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Robert Murray Keith, Ralph Woodford, Daniel De Laval 1771–1779
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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Robert Murray Keith, addressed in the dispatches as Colonel, was the eldest son of that other prominent diplomatist, Robert Keith. His distinguished service in the Seven Years' War and his subsequent diplomatic career, including his forcible rescue of Queen Caroline Matilda from her prison, have received full notice in the Dictionary of National Biography. In June 1772 he escorted the fallen queen to her refuge at Celle and was then promoted to Vienna.
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- British Diplomatic Instructions, Denmark, 1689–1789
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page 184 note 1 Baron Wilhelm Christian von Diede von Fürstenstein, of an old Hessian family, had entered the Danish service in 1760 under Bernstorff's patronage. He served as ambassador at Berlin 1763–7, and was then sent to London, where he found great favour and survived the crisis of the affair of Queen Caroline Matilda. He was recalled at the end of 1776.
page 184 note 2 The coup d'état of Gustavus III, see The Cambridge Modern History, VI, 770–2.
page 189 note 1 Christian VII's half-brother, Christian Frederick. He married on II October 1774 the princess Sophie Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
page 189 note 2 Joachim Otto Schack-Rathlou, formerly (1760–1767) envoy to Sweden, a close adherent of Bernstorff.