Abraham Stanyan

Abraham Stanyan

Abraham Stanyan (c. 1669-1732) was an English politician and diplomat.

After studying law at the Middle Temple he became Clerk of the Privy Council, he then moved on to a new career as a diplomat. He was envoy to Switzerland from 1705-1714, Commissioner of the Admiralty, Ambassador to Austria, and then Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1718-1730. 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. On his return to England he became member of parliament for Buckingham.

He was a member of the Kit Kat Club

References

*The National Portrait Gallery
*The English Embassy at Constantinople, 1660-1762, A.C. Wood, The English Historical Review, Vol. 40, No. 160 (Oct., 1925), pp. 533-561

ee also

*List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire


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