Duncan Taylor CBE |
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British Ambassador to Mexico | |
Assumed office September 2013 |
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Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Preceded by | Judith Macgregor |
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Born | 17 October 1958 |
Duncan John Rushworth Taylor CBE (born 17 October 1958) is a British diplomat who is[update] ambassador to Mexico.
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.
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.