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John Burnaby (1701–1774) was a British diplomat. He was Resident minister to the Swiss Cantons.
Burnaby was the son John Burnaby, of Kensington, and his wife Clara Wood.
He served as secretary to James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave as Ambassador to Austria and then in France. After a period out of employment, he appointed as envoy to Switzerland from 1705 to 1714, Ambassador to Austria from 1716 to 1717. He was appointed Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in October 1717. He arrived at Adrianople on 24 April 1718. He held these last two posts in a period when England held the role of mediator between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and having worked in the capitals of both powers Stanyan was an influential part of those negotiations. He was recalled on 16 May 1729 but did not leave Turkey until 18 July 1730.
On his return to England from Switzerland in 1714, Stanyan was appointed a Commissioner of the Admiralty. At the 1715 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Buckingham on the interest of his cousin, Lord Cobham. He gave up his seat in October 1717 on appointment to office as clerk in ordinary to Privy Council. He was a Whig and member of the Kit Kat Club.[1]
Stanyan died in September 1774.
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Further reading
- John Debrett: Debrett's Baronetage of England. With Alphabetical Lists of Such Baronetcies as Have Merged in the Peerage, Or Have Become Extinct, and Also of the Existing Baronets of Nova Scotia and Ireland. 1835
- Thomas Freivogel: Emanuel Handmann 1718–1781 – Ein Basler Porträtist im Bern des ausgehenden Rokoko. Murten 2002.
- H.L. Rabino Di Borgomale: Les armoiries des représentants diplomatiques britanniques en Suisse de 1617 à 1947. In: Schweizerisches Archiv für Heraldik. vol. 61, 1947, p. 49–56.
- Hans Utz: Liberty and Property. England im 18. Jahrhundert nach Berichten von Bernern. In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde. vol. 54, 1992, p. 97–150
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