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Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, GCVO, KCB, JP, DL, FRPS (24 February 1837 – 17 August 1916), was a British diplomat, collector and writer, whose most notable work is Tales of Old Japan (1871).
The Earl bequeathed his substantial estates to his first cousin twice removed, the diplomat, politician and writer Sir Algernon Bertram Mitford, the great-grandson of historian William Mitford, who was the elder brother of the first Baron Redesdale.
The family became particularly known in the 1930s and later for the six Mitford sisters, great-great-great-granddaughters of William Mitford, and the daughters of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and his wife Sydney Bowles.
Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford (1837-1916), 1st Baron Redesdale, diplomat and author, was born at South Audley, London, on 24 February 1837, and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the Foreign Office in 1858, and was attaché in Japan, 1866-1870.
Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, GCVO, KCB, JP, DL (24 February 1837 – 17 August 1916), was a British diplomat, collector, and writer who wrote as A.B. Mitford. His most notable work is Tales of Old Japan (1871). Nicknamed "Berty", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters.
May 26, 2015 · Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron of Redesdale, was the second secretary to the British Legation in Japan when he published Tales of Old Japan (1871), a collection of stories, fairy tales, accounts of superstitions, sermons, and other short pieces based on traditional Japanese culture.
Jun 18, 2020 · Mitford's Japan : the memoirs and recollections, 1866-1906, of Algernon Bertram Mitford, the first Lord Redesdale. by. Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron, 1837-1916. Publication date.
