Duncan Taylor (diplomat)
Duncan Taylor | |
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British Ambassador to Mexico | |
Assumed office 6 September 2013 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Preceded by | Judith Macgregor |
Governor of the Cayman Islands | |
In office 15 January 2010 – 7 August 2013 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Preceded by | Stuart Jack |
Succeeded by | Helen Kilpatrick |
Personal details | |
Born | 17 October 1958 |
Spouse | Marie-Beatrice |
Children | 3 |
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Alma mater | Trinity College |
Duncan John Rushworth Taylor CBE (born 17 October 1958) is a British diplomat who is[update] ambassador to Mexico.
Career
Educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he joined the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office 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 the 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.[1]
Personal life
Duncan Taylor is the son of Sir Jock Taylor KCMG, also a diplomat, and the grandson of Sir John Taylor KBE CMG (1895-1974), who was also ambassador to Mexico. He is married to Marie-Beatrice and has three daughters and two sons.
References
- TAYLOR, Duncan John Rushworth, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
- ^ Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Mexico, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 10 May 2013
- 1958 births
- Living people
- People educated at Highgate School
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Barbados
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Antigua and Barbuda
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Dominica
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Grenada
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Saint Lucia
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Governors of the Cayman Islands
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Mexico