D'Abernon, Edgar Vincent (1857–1941)

English financier and diplomat. He became ambassador to Berlin, Germany, in 1920, and was instrumental in achieving the stabilization of the Deutschmark after World War I, realizing the Dawes Plan (see Charles Dawes), negotiating the Anglo-German commercial treaty of 1924, and initiating the Pact of Locarno. He was created a peer in 1914.

D'Abernon was born in Slinfold, Sussex, studied at Eton, and served in the Coldstream Guards for five years. In 1882 he was appointed president of the council of the Ottoman Public Department and in 1883 financial adviser to the Egyptian government. In 1889 he became governor of the Imperial Ottoman Bank. He was elected Conservative member of Parliament for Exeter in 1899 but was defeated in 1906 and again in 1910, when he contested Colchester as a Liberal.