Colonel

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 Sir James Hayes Sadler, KCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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, CB

Order of the Bath

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 (21 May 1827 – 9 January 1910) was a British diplomat

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 and civil servant.

In 1854 Sadler was commissioned into the Artillery Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia (later the Royal Sussex Artillery Militia and then the 3rd Brigade, Cinque Ports Division, Royal Artillery

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 (Militia)). He was promoted Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 the following year and Captain

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 in 1858. He was promoted to Honorary Major

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 in 1874, and full Major and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in 1879. He resigned his commission in 1882.

In 1893 and again in 1893-94, he was Chief political resident of the Persian Gulf (for Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the Trucial States). He subsequently held a number of senior governmental roles in East Africa and the West Indies.

Sadler died in 1910, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery

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, London.

His wife, Sophia Jane, Lady Sadler, died on 12 February 1902, and is buried next to him.