ALLEYNE FITZHERBERT
(Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens)
Mt. St. Helens was named after him. Alleyne wanted to use the word “liberty” as that would come from the King but a “right” existed independently of the king. In what was considered a great diplomatic compromise of the day, Article III acknowledges the American “right” to fish off the Grand Banks and gives them the “liberty” off the shores of “all other of his Brittannic Majesty’s Dominions in America
Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens, PC was a British diplomat. He was Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia from 1783 to 1788, appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland and a member of the Privy Council (Great Britain & Ireland) in 1787, serving in the former position until 1789. He was Minister plenipotentiary to Spain from 1790 to 1794.
