Eugen Millington-Drake

Eugen Millington-Drake

Sir Eugen John Henry Vanderstegen Millington-Drake, KCMG (26 February 1889 – 12 December 1972) was a British diplomat.

Millington-Drake was the son of Henry Millington-Drake. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he rowed in the winning 1911 Boat Race crew. In 1912 he entered the Diplomatic Service and his posts included St. Petersburg (1913); Buenos Aires (1915); at the Paris Peace Delegation and Embassy (1919–1920); First Secretary and Chargé d'Affaires at Bucharest (1921–1924); Brussels (1924–1927); Copenhagen (1927–1928); Counsellor of Embassy, Buenos Aires (1929–1933); and Minister to Uruguay (1934–1941). In 1920 he married Lady Effie Mackay, daughter of the 1st Earl of Inchcape, and they had four children.

In 1936 he was the Honorary President of Uruguayan Delegation to the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was seconded from the Foreign Office as Chief Representative of the British Council in Spanish America, 1942-1946. In 1948 he was Chairman of the Reception Committee of XIV Olympiad in London. He was Vice-President of the Council of the Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society, visiting the East on cultural missions, 1949-1950. In 1952 and 1953 he undertook lecture tours of Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Réunion.

In the 1956 British war film The Battle of the River Plate (film) he is played by the actor Anthony Bushell, and is portrayed as a well dressed and accomplished diplomat.