August Baron de Cetto


August Baron de Cetto was a Kingdom of Bavaria diplomat, state councillor and chamberlain.

Life

August of Cetto was the son of the jurist and diplomat Anton of Cetto and his wife Anna née Cazin. His father was the Bavarian envoy in Paris and was in 1812 made a Baron by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der freiherrlichen Häuser, Gotha 1858, p. 96 The Cetto family was an Italian patrician family originally from Como. They settled in Bohemia, where they were raised to hereditary knighthood in 1703 by the Holy Roman Emperor. entry in Pierer's Universal Lexicon, Bd 3, Altenburg, 1857, p. 835
August of Cetto began his career in 1816 as a civil service candidate in the administration of the Circle of Isar
In April 1831 August of Cetto married Elizabeth Catherine, the daughter of Colonel Thomas Burrowes of Dangan Castle, County Meath. The couple had three children, including Anton Wilhelm. In 1833, Cetto was appointed the Bavarian Envoy at the Imperial Court in Vienna. L 'Almanach de Gotha pour l'Année 1834, Gotha 1834, S. 264 From 1835 to 1867 he again served as Bavarian Envoy to London. Tobias C. Bringmann 'Manual of diplomacy 1815-1963: Foreign missionaries in Germany and German missionaries abroad from Metternich to Adenauer' 'Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p. 40, ;
Cetto retired in 1867 and lived in No.6 Hill Street in Berkeley Square Gardens, taking part in the social life of the metropolis, and still attending the receptions at the court. The Times No. 29643, London 11 August 1879, p.11
His son Anton Wilhelm de Cetto was Bavarian Envoy to the Holy See, 1883 – 1906.