consular agent

American  

noun

1. a consular officer of the lowest rank, often a designated foreign national, stationed at a place where no full consular service is established.

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consular agent British  

noun

1. a consul of one of the lower grades

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consular agent

He had been Italy's consular agent at Johnstown, Pa. since 1932, had not seen his own country for over 30 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Noyes was divorced two months ago from Robert Russell Dickey Jr., onetime U.S. consular agent in Pau, France, has four children.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spent a most agreeable Sunday in the hospitable house of M. Fredin, the French consular agent, and his amiable and talented wife.

From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by O'Rell, Max

This worthy was the consular agent of some one of the European powers, but affected to be consul for all.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various

Mr. Thayer, the American Consul-General, gives me letters to every consular agent depending on him; and two Coptic merchants whom I met at the fantasia have already begged me to ‘honour their houses.’

From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet