John Safford Fiske  John Safford Fiske (January 18, 1838 – June 11, 1907) was a Consul of the United States at Leith, Scotland, who was involved in an homosexual scandal, and therefore forced to leave his post. John Safford Fiske was born on January 18, 1838, in Ashtabula, Ohio, the son of Isaac Hubbard Fiske (1811–1877) and Mary Safford (1816–1876). He attended Williston Seminary, in Easthampton, Massachusetts and in 1859 went to Yale College, graduating in 1863. From 1863 to 1864 he worked as a deputy clerk in Albany for the New York State Senate. In 1865 he was a private tutor near New York City. In October 1867 he was nominated by President Andrew Johnson the United States consul in Leith, Scotland. While abroad he was involved in the scandal concerning Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park. In 1868 Boulton and Park were in Edinburgh and Fiske had an affair with Ernest Boulton, and even after Boulton went back to London, Fiske continued to send love letters to him. In 1870 Fiske was in London, where he was arrested and charged with "conspiracy to commit buggery". He decide to resign as a United States consul to avoid the involvement of his country in the scandal, even if he continued to maintain that he was innocent. In 1871, Fiske was acquitted, due to the fact there were no evidences against him if not the letters he sent to Boulton. After the trial, Fiske went to Düsseldorf, Germany, where he lived for one year, spending most of the time painting, almost exclusively architectural subjects. The following three years Fiske was back in the United States, but in May 1874 he was again in Europe, where he lived for the rest of his life, first in Düsseldorf, and then Pinneberg (Holstein), Ecouen, near Paris (where he lived "with an English friend"), and from 1876 to 1877 in Constantinople. In the end Fiske settled in Italy, at Alassio, in 1882. In 1873 he published a translation of Caine's "Voyage aux Pyrénées". He also wrote of current events to various newspapers, from Sweden, Russia, Germany, Turkey, Greece, and Italy.