Montague Yeats-Brown

Yeats-Brown was born on 2 August 1834 on Palmaria, and was christened on an American warship then in harbour at the island. He grew up speaking Genoese, Italian, German and English.^{[2]: 25 [3]: 6}

His father, Timothy Yeats Brown, from an English banking family, became Consul of Genoa in 1840;^[4] his maternal grandfather John Cadwalader was a militia general in the American Revolution. "Monty" was sent to a German school in Brussels at the age of 10, before passing into Marlborough College.^[5]

He served in Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia^[6] and then in Boston.^[1][7][8][9]

Yeats-Brown began working in the British Consulate in Genoa in 1854 aged 20, was appointed Vice-Consul two years later, and then Consul after his father's retirement in 1857, "though only then 23, which is unusually young for such a post".^[6][3] He married Agnes Matilda Bellingham, sister of Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, on 3 November 1875.^[10] Yeats-Brown was appointed as consul to Boston in 1893,^[3]: 4 retiring from the diplomatic service in 1896.^[9]

In 1867, Yeats-Brown^[4] purchased Castello Brown above Portofino,^[2]: 25 which he restored over subsequent years, and where he died on 22 February 1921.^[11]

One of his sons, Francis Yeats-Brown, became well known for his dashing autobiography The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.

List of diplomats of Great Britain to the Republic of Genoa