Lord Augustus Loftus governor of New South Wales He started his diplomatic career in as attache in Berlin In he accompanied Sir Stratford Canning on visits to the royal courts of Berlin Vienna Munich and Athens just before the outbreaks of the revolutions that shook Europe He rose through the ranks holding posts in Stuttgardt Berlin and Vienna In he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia In he was made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath He took a leading role in the negotiations that ended in the Treaty of Berlin of In he was appointed governor of New South Wales after requesting such a transfer to Lord Salisbury From Men of Mark a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate the Church in science literature and art the army navy law medicine etc