British Consul Arthur Woodhouse C.B.E.

Woodhouse, William Webster, Arthur, CBE in 1920; born at sea, 31st May 1867, eldest son of late HBM Consul Arthur Woodhouse and Mary Rachel, daughter of Richard Webster, Jersey; married 1st 1892, Selina, daughter of Henry’s the Rogers, Odessa; 2nd Marie, widow of Voznesenky by Vladimir, the St. Petersburg ; daughter one’s, one’s Adopted daughter, (one’s son deceased). Educated: Oxford House Academy, Jersey. Entered Consulate-General at Odessa as clerk , 1886; employed on the Afghan Boundary Commission, 1887-88 ; Vice-Consul, Batoum, 1891; Acting Consul-General at Odessa in 1891-94, and in 1901 and 1903; Vice-Consul at Odessa in 1893; Acting Vice-Consul Sevastopol 1894 transferred to Nicolaiev 1895; to Boston in 1905; Consul in St. Pierre-Miquelon in 1906; transferred to Thorshavn 1907; St. Petersburg in 1907 ; Coronation medal in 1911, arrested a Bolshevik by Forces, 30Th August 1918; imprisoned in Troubetskoi Bastion until 6th October and left Petrograd 10th October 1918 ; Consul-General at New Orleans in 1919; Acting Consul-General at Genoa in 1920; HBM’s Consul-General Gothenburg, Sweden , in 1921; retired 1927.Interesting!
Woodhouse was during the Russian revolution Consul-General in Petrograd, the British and Consul Thomas Preston in Ekaterinburg urged the foreign office to get the Romanov’s out of the country! (Source)