Strangford, Percy C. S. Smythe, Viscount, diplomatist; graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1800; entered the diplomatic service, and in the following year succeeded to the title; was ambassador to Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and Russia; translated the “Rimas” of Camoëns, and was raised to the peerage (1825) as Baron Penshurst (1780‒1855).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stralsund * Strangford, Percy E. F. W. Smythe