Duncan Taylor (diplomat)
{{Short description|British diplomat}}
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|honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}}
|office = British Ambassador to Mexico
|monarch = Elizabeth II
|primeminister = David Cameron
Theresa May
|term_start = 2013
|term_end = 2018
|predecessor = Judith Macgregor
|successor = Corin Robertson
|office2 = Governor of the Cayman Islands
|monarch2 = Elizabeth II
|term_start2 = 2010
|term_end2 = 2013
|predecessor2 = Stuart Jack
|successor2 = Helen Kilpatrick
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1958|10|17}}
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|alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge
|father = Sir Jock Taylor
|spouse = Marie-Beatrice
|children = 5
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Duncan John Rushworth Taylor {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (born 17 October 1958) is a British retired diplomat whose most recent post was British Ambassador to Mexico.
Career
Educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he joined the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1982 as a Desk Officer in its West Africa department. In 2005, he was appointed the British High Commissioner for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, which covered Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. He became the governor of the Cayman Islands on 15 January 2010. His appointment as ambassador to Mexico was announced in May 2013.[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-mexico-change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-mexico Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Mexico], Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 10 May 2013 In April 2018 the FCO announced that he was to be replaced in October 2018 and was retiring from the Diplomatic Service.{{Cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-mexico-in-october-2018 |title=Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Mexico in October 2018 |publisher=Foreign & Commonwealth Office |date=24 April 2018}}
Personal life
Duncan Taylor is the son of Sir Jock Taylor, also a diplomat, and the grandson of Sir John Taylor (1895–1974), who was also ambassador to Mexico. He is married to Marie-Beatrice and has three daughters and two sons.
References
- [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U43662 TAYLOR, Duncan John Rushworth], Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
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Category:People educated at Highgate School
Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Barbados
Category:High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Antigua and Barbuda
Category:High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Dominica
Category:High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Grenada
Category:High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Saint Lucia
Category:High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Category:High commissioners of the United Kingdom to Saint Kitts and Nevis