Sir John Charles Tudor Vaughan (4 February 1870 – 26 April 1929) was a British diplomat who was envoy to several countries.

Career

Vaughan joined the Diplomatic Service in 1894 and served in The Hague, Athens and Cairo before spending three years in South Africa. At Pretoria he was assistant private secretary to

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, 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

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in 1906, and was posted to Copenhagen later that year. He was

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in 1911 and at Bucharest in 1912, and was posted back to Madrid in 1913. Vaughan was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile 1918–22, to the Republics of

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

and Estonia 1922–27 and concurrently Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to

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1923–27, and finally to

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1927–29. Vaughan died at

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while still in office. After a funeral service at

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in Stockholm, his coffin was conveyed to England aboard the Swedish destroyer Ehrensköld. On arrival in England on 6 May 1929, Vaughan was buried at the

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, East Sussex. In 1912 Tudor Vaugan's father Henry Vaughan and his sons and daughters added the name St Andrew to their surname, so that John Charles Tudor Vaughan became formally John Charles Tudor St Andrew-Vaughan. However, he continued to be known as Tudor Vaughan and official notices referred to him as John Charles Tudor Vaughan.

Honours

Tudor Vaughan was appointed MVO in 1908 and CMG in the New Year Honours of 1918. He was knighted KCMG in the

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. The Danish government made him a Commander of the

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References

VAUGHAN, Sir (John Charles) Tudor (St Andrew-)
''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2015 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
Sir Tudor Vaughan: Varied Career As Diplomatist
(obituary), ''The Times'', London, 27 April 1929, page 11
The Late Sir Tudor Vaughan: Swedish Tributes
''The Times'', London, 29 April 1929, page 13 {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaughan, Tudor 1870 births 1929 deaths Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Chile Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Latvia Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Estonia Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Lithuania Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Sweden Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Members of the Royal Victorian Order Commanders of the Order of the Dannebrog