John Murray (British diplomat)

John Murray (British diplomat)

John Murray was a British diplomat.

From 1754 he was British resident in Venice and from 1765-1775 was British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople.

Leaving Turkey in 1775 he died during a stop-over in Venice on his return home.

References

* The History of the Levant Company - Alfred C. Wood


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