Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1901
Number:20 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name:Lord Julian Pauncefote of Preston
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1828
Year, Death:1902
Profession:Diplomat
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Motivation:Pauncefote dealt successfully with the problems concerning seal fishing in the Bering Sea, the Venezuela Boundary Dispute, and the Panama Canal question (the Hay-Pauncefote treaties 1899-1901). As a delegate to the First Hague Conference (1899) he was a leading figure in the formation of a permanent tribunal of arbitration.
 
Nominator:
Name:John Theodor Lund
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1842
Year, Death:1913
Profession:Customs officer. Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1897-1913)
City:Kristiania (now Oslo)
Country:NORWAY (NO)