Nikolaos Deligiannis


Nikolaos Petrou Deligiannis was the caretaker Prime Minister of Greece from January to June 1895.

Biography

Born in Athens, he is the son of, three-time foreign minister of Greece and spawn of the powerful primate from Langadia, Arcadia.
He studied law at the University of Athens and made his career in the diplomatic corps. He was first appointed secretary of the Greek embassy in Constantinople and then served as ambassador in Belgrade, Paris and in Madrid. He returned to Athens and after a while he left Paris again, where he was appointed Ambassador of Greece. In 1899 he was a representative of Greece in the Hague Conference. He was also a founding member of the Hellenic Olympic Committee.
In January 1895, after the fall of the seventh and last of Charilaos Trikoupis, he was appointed by George I as caretaker Prime Minister. The, composed of extra-parliamentary figures, in which he also held the Foreign and Interior portfolios, conducted elections which took place in May of the same year. They were won by Theodore Deligiannis, a first cousin of his father, who accessed as Prime Minister on May 31, 1895. Nikolaos Deligiannis returned to the diplomatic service as ambassador in Paris, where he died and was buried in the cemetery of Boulogne.

Family

His wife was Amalia, sister of N. Baltatzi, lady-in-waiting, and Elena Baltatzi, wife of Alexandros, ambassador in Belgrade. They had three children. Their daughter and a son, officer in the Hellenic Army, had already died when Nikolaos Deligiannis died. The third child, Petros Deligiannis, was also a diplomat, secretary of the embassy in Washington, and Consul at the embassy in Paris in 1890.
He is not to be confused with his cousin , son of and brother of Prime Minister Theodore Deligiannis, who served as President of the Court of Cassation in 1885–1890.