Tudor Vaughan
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Sir John Charles Tudor Vaughan {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG|MVO}} (4 February 1870 – 26 April 1929) was a British diplomat who was envoy to several countries.
Origins
Born at Horsham, he was the second son of Henry Vaughan (1834–1887), a Commander in the Royal Navy, and his first wife Emily Hudson (1834–1870).{{cite web|title = England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008|url = https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XW7-TVC|access-date = 27 May 2023}} He was a great-grandson of the judge Sir John Vaughan.
Career
He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1894{{London Gazette |issue=26480 |page=590 |date=30 January 1894}} and served in The Hague, Athens and Cairo before spending three years in South Africa. At Pretoria he was assistant private secretary to Sir Alfred Milner, then political secretary to Lord Roberts, then assistant secretary to the Administration of the Transvaal Republic. He was posted to Peking in 1901, to Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1903 and to Madrid in 1905; he was secretary to the British delegation, and a member of the drafting committee, at the Algeciras Conference in 1906, and was posted to Copenhagen later that year. He was chargé d'affaires at Santiago, Chile in 1911 and at Bucharest in 1912, and was posted back to Madrid in 1913.
He was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile 1918–22,{{London Gazette |issue=31361 |page=6508 |date=27 May 1919}} to the Republics of Latvia and Estonia 1922–27{{London Gazette |issue=32777 |page=8866 |date=15 December 1922}} and concurrently Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Lithuania 1923–27,{{London Gazette |issue=32785 |page=215 |date=9 January 1923}} and finally to Sweden 1927–29.{{London Gazette |issue=33379 |page=2972 |date=27 April 1928}}
He died at Stockholm while still in office. After a funeral service at St Peter and St Sigfrid's Church in Stockholm, his coffin was conveyed to England aboard the Swedish destroyer Ehrensköld.[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS252256419&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Sir Tudor Vaughan: Funeral Service In Stockholm], The Times, London, 3 May 1929, page 15 On arrival in England on 6 May 1929, his body was buried at the Church in the Wood, Hollington, East Sussex.[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS302588070&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 The Late Sir Tudor Vaughan], The Times, London, 6 May 1929, page 18
No record of him marrying or having children is known, and his executor was his half-brother.{{cite web|title = England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957|url = https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:761R-193Z|access-date = 27 May 2023}}
Honours
He was appointed MVO in 1908{{London Gazette |issue=32777 |page=8866 |date=28 April 1908}} and CMG in the New Year Honours of 1918.{{London Gazette |issue=30451 |supp=y |page=82 |date=1 January 1918}} He was knighted KCMG in the 1925 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=33053 |supp=y |page=3771 |date=3 June 1925}} The Danish government made him a Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog.
References
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- [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U218496 VAUGHAN, Sir (John Charles) Tudor (St Andrew-)], Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
- [http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS185671835&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Sir Tudor Vaughan: Varied Career As Diplomatist] (obituary), The Times, London, 27 April 1929, page 11
- [http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS218570909&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 The Late Sir Tudor Vaughan: Swedish Tributes], The Times, London, 29 April 1929, page 13
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{{s-bef| before = Sir Francis Stronge }}
{{s-ttl| title = Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile
| years = 1918–1922 }}
{{s-aft| after = Sir Arthur Grant Duff }}
{{s-bef| before = Ernest Wilton }}
{{s-ttl| title = Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Latvia and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Estonia
| years = 1922–1927 }}
{{s-aft| after = Joseph Addison }}
{{s-bef| before = Ernest Wilton }}
{{s-ttl| title = Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Lithuania
| years = 1923–1927 }}
{{s-aft| after = Joseph Addison }}
{{s-bef| before = Sir Arthur Grant Duff }}
{{s-ttl| title = Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Sweden
| years = 1927–1929 }}
{{s-aft| after = Sir Archibald Clark Kerr }}
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Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Chile
Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Latvia
Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Estonia
Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Lithuania
Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Sweden
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George