John Murray (British diplomat)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
John Murray (1712?–1775) was a British diplomat, notorious rake and friend of Giacomo Casanova.
From 1754 he was British resident in Venice. He was appointed on 15 November 1765 as British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, arriving at Constantinople on 2 June 1766. He was given leave to return home, leaving Turkey on 27 January 1775. He sailed home on 25 May 1775 but died during a stop-over in Venice on 9 August 1775.
References
- Holmes, Zoë. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71110.
{{cite encyclopedia}}
: Missing or empty|title=
(help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Bibliography
- Alfred C. Wood, The History of the Levant Company
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- CS1 errors: missing title
- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB
- Pages using cite ODNB with id parameter
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with ICCU identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- 1710s births
- 1775 deaths
- Ambassadors of Great Britain to the Ottoman Empire
- 18th-century British civil servants
- Ambassadors of Great Britain to the Republic of Venice