Sir John Duncan Bligh KCB, DL (11 October 1798 – 8 May 1872)[1] was a British diplomat.
[4] In 1822, Bligh played for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a first-class match, batting twice and scoring 2 each time.
[2] Three years later he was transferred to Paris and in 1826 a special mission led him to Russia, where he attended the coronation of Emperor Nicholas I.
[7] He served as envoy ad interim from July 1832[8] and came to Saint Petersburg in September,[9] acting as ambassador.
[17] Their only child was a daughter, named after her mother: Elizabeth died two years later and Bligh remained a widower until 1865, when he remarried his cousin Anne Julia Brownlow, fourth daughter of Francis Brownlow at Ardbraccan Rectory on 28 November.