John Murray (British diplomat)
John Murray (1712?–1775) was a British diplomat, notorious rake and friend of Casanova.
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.
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| Preceded by ? |
British Resident to the Republic of Venice 1754–1765 |
Succeeded by James Wright |
References
- Holmes, Zoë. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71110. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Alfred C. Wood, The History of the Levant Company