He was promoted First Secretary in the Diplomatic Service in 1909 and served in Sofia , 1909 – 1911 , Christiania , 1912 , and as Counsellor of the British Embassy at Petrograd , 1915 . More senior postings came after the Great War . Lindley was appointed H.M. Commissioner in Russia in June 1918 and H.M. Consul-General there in 1919 , where " he earned the respect of the Bolsheviks . " Lindley served as High Commissioner in Vienna from 1919 to 1920 . He succeeded Sir Maurice de Bunsen as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Austria , serving between 1920 and 1921 , and then succeeded Granville Leveson-Gower , 3rd Earl Granville as the Ambassador to Greece between 1921 and 1922 , until a break in diplomatic relations in 1922 . Beginning in 1923 , he succeeded Sir Mansfeldt Findlay as the Minister to Norway in Oslo . In 1929 , he succeeded Sir Colville Barclay as the Ambassador to Portugal , serving until 1931 . His final diplomatic post was as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan from 1931 to 1934 during the reign of Emperor Hirohito . While in Japan , he did not live in the Ambassador 's residence , which was still being reconstructed after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake , but at the embassy house in Chuzenji
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
Francis Oswald Lindley