Nevile Henderson (10 June 1882 – 30 December 1942) was the British Minister to Yugoslavia from 21 November 1929 to 1935 (succeeding Howard William Kennard and preceding Ronald Ian Campbell), Ambassador to Argentina from 1935 to 1937 (succeeding Henry Chilton and preceding Esmond Ovey), and Ambassador to Germany from 28 May 1937 to 3 September 1939 (succeeding Eric Phipps and preceding Brian Robertson).
Biography[]
Nevile Henderson was born in Horsham, Sussex, England in 1882, and he was educated at Eton and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1905. He served at the embassy in Turkey during the 1920s, negotiating the Mosul dispute with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk before serving as an envoy to France from 1928 to 1929, Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1935, Ambassador to Argentina from 1935 to 1937, and Ambassador to Germany from 1937 to 1939. He supported appeasing Adolf Hitler, and he criticized Czechoslovakia's mobilization during the May Crisis of 1938 and developed anti-Slavic views during his time in Berlin. He left for London upon being diagnosed with cancer in 1938, and the start of World War II in September 1939 led to the termination of diplomatic ties between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. He was never granted another ambassadorship, and he died of cancer in 1942.