London,Turkish Ambassador, Metropolitan Police Carriage Pass
Carriage Passes were the equivalent of the "C.D."(Corps Diplomatic) plates used on cars today. They gave access to such areas as the courtyard of Buckingham Palace.
The original embassy of the Ottoman Empire opened in London in 1793.
Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB (1840-1927), Metropolitan Police Commissioner from March 1886 to December 1888, was, like his predecessor, an officer in the Royal Engineers, who saw action in the Middle East and South Africa and was recalled from the Sudan to take up his post in London. After the furore caused by the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888 Warren tendered his resignation and subsequently resumed his military career but during the Boer War was heavily criticised for losing the newly-captured Spion Kop to the Boers in January 1900.
His tenure as Commissioner took in the 1887 Golden Jubilee celebrations.The service at Westminster Abbey was recorded in glowing terms- "The Abbey, with the exception of the choir and the sacrarium, was full at ten o'clock. It was a most brilliant sight one which will never be forgotten by those who saw it. The bright hues of military uniforms and the scarlet and ermine of the judges, blended admirably with the white dresses of the ladies. The black lambswool kalpack of Malcom Khan, the Persian envoy, and the fez of Bustem Pasha, the Turkish ambassador, were very conspicuous amid the brilliant throng. The royal children, who composed the first procession, arrived very quietly soon after ten".
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