William Turner (diplomat)

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William Turner (* 1792 , † 10. January 1867 in Leamington Spa ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Turner entered the diplomatic service at the age of 18 and was assigned to the British Embassy in Constantinople in 1811 . Ambassador Robert Liston gave him the opportunity to travel extensively in the Middle East. In 1820 Turner published a travelogue entitled Journal of a Tour in the Levant .

In 1824 he returned to Constantinople as Secretary of the Embassy. From 1829 to 1838 he served as an envoy extraordinary (English Envoy Extraordinary ) in Colombia.

Publications

  • Journal of a Tour in the Levant . John Murray Verlag, London 1820 ( full text in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Gentleman's magazine , Volume 222
  2. ↑ Deborah Manley, Sahar Abdel-Hakim: Traveling through Sinai: from the fourth to the twenty-first century . The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo 2009 ( text excerpt in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Annamarie Felsch-Klotz: Early travelers in Phokis and Lokris. Reports from central Greece from the 12th to the 19th centuries . Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2009 ( full text in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 18016, HMSO, London, April 6, 1824, p. 561 ( PDF , accessed October 24, 2010, English).
  5. ^ Sir Henry Parnell: On financial reform .
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 18598, HMSO, London, July 31, 1829, p. 1438 ( PDF , accessed October 24, 2010, English).
predecessor Office successor
James Henderson British Envoy Extraordinary in Colombia
1829 to 1838 		William Pitt Adams
personal data
SURNAME Turner, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH 1792
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1867
Place of death Leamington Spa