George Edgar Vaughan

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Sir George Edgar Vaughan KBE ( February 24, 1907 - January 25, 1994 ) was a British diplomat and member of the Royal Historical Society . He was the British ambassador to Panama and Colombia .

Life

Vaughan attended the Grammar School in Cheltenham and Jesus College (Oxford) until 1928 . In 1928 he completed a degree in history and in 1929 a degree in philosophy & economics . From 1929 to 1931 he received a Laming Traveling Fellow Scholarship at Queen's College (Oxford) . In 1930 he joined the foreign service with the rank of Vice-Consul. From 1930 to 1931 was accredited in Hamburg . From 1932 to 1935 he was accredited as Second Secretary and Vice-Consul in La Paz . From 1935 to 1938 he was accredited to Barcelona . At the beginning of 1937 he reported on the supply situation in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War . Prior to World War II, Vaughan was accredited as Vice-Consul in Montevideo and Rosario . During the Second World War he was mostly accredited as Consul General in Buenos Aires. In 1945 he became consul in Monrovia , where he served as chargé d'affaires. He was consul general in Seattle, Washington, Lourenço Marques and Amsterdam. From 1956 to 1960 he was Consul General in Buenos Aires .

In 1937 he was inducted into the Order of the British Empire as an officer , promoted to commander in 1956 and knight commander in 1963 . After serving in Colombia, he was retired.

From 1966 to 1967 he was Special Lecturer and from 1967 to 1974 Professor of History at the University of Regina in Regina (Saskatchewan) . In 1965 he became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 1966 an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College. In 1990 he was accepted into an Orden de Andrés Bello in Caracas named after Andrés Bello .

Publications

  • The Guayrians at Guelph in Upper Canada: Scottish settlers for Canada from Venezuela, a bureaucratic problem in 1827, Guelph Historical Society, 112 p., 1979
  • Joseph Lancaster in Caracas 1824-1827: and his relations with the liberator Simon Bolivar: with some accounts of Lancasterian schools in Spanish America in the nineteenth century and some notes on the efforts of the British and Foreign Bible Society to distribute the Scriptures in Spanish in the same territory, 720 p. 1986
  • URA, Publications Section. University of Saskatchewan, Board of Governors agenda. November 30, 1972, Dean Edgar Vaughan, confidential report, November 19, 1972.
predecessor Office successor
Ian Leslie Henderson British ambassador to Panama
1960 to 1963 		Alan Meredith Williams
Alfred Stanley Fordham British Ambassador to Colombia
1964 to 1966 		William Hilary Young

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Richard Esenwein, The Spanish Civil War: a modern tragedy , Barcelona, ​​January 2, 1937 p. 238
  2. ^ The Diplomatic service list , 1971

References


personal data
SURNAME Vaughan, George Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vaughan, Sir George Edgar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1907
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1994