On Wednesday (24) the Cayman Islands Government Administration Building will be closed to the general public from 4pm to prepare for a reception in honour of H.E. Governor Duncan Taylor.

Cayman’s civil service, together with  his wife Marie-Beatrice, Acting Premier Moses Kirkconnell and the Deputy Governor Franz Manderson, will be saying fond farewell to Governor Taylor who leaves the Cayman Islands in early August to take up the position of UK Ambassador to Mexico.

Governor Taylor assumed office on 15^th January 2010. He is 54 years of age and son of Sir Jock Taylor KCMG.

Duncan John Rushworth Taylor, CBE, has three daughters and two sons.

Before coming to Cayman he was stationed in Bridgetown, he was the British High Commissioner for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, a position he held from 2005. The posting covered Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.

A career diplomat, Governor Taylor has served in the UK’s Foreign Service for 27 years.

Starting in 1982 as Desk Officer for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in its West Africa Department, he went on to become Third and later Second Secretary of Chancery in Havana between 1983-87. Subsequently, he was Head of Japan Section in the FCO’s Far East Department for two years.

Between 1989 and 1991, he served in the FCO’s Personnel Operations Department. In 1992, he took over as Head of the British Embassy’s Commercial Section in Budapest, Hungary, where he served for four years.

During 1996-7, as Director of Latin American Affairs, he was seconded to Rolls Royce. From 1997-2000, he was Head of Consular Division for the FCO. Immediately prior to Governor Taylor’s current posting (2000-2005), he served as Deputy Consul-General and Deputy Head of Post in New York.