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Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald Quotes

1818–1885 United Kingdom

Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE, PC (1818 – 28 June 1885), was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1858 and 1859 and as Governor of Bombay between 1867 and 1872.

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It has been said that no one ever understood the question which is known by the name of the Schleswig-Holstein question — that the only person who got nearly to understand it was a German professor, and that it had driven him mad.

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