Sir (Alexander) Telford Waugh KCMG (22 October 1865 – 7 January 1950) was a British diplomat who experienced at first hand the final days of the Ottoman Empire.

[1] In 1885, Waugh joined the Levant Consular Service as a student interpreter.

[1] In 1915 he was recalled to the Foreign Office in London before being sent to Athens as Britain’s commercial attaché where he was put in charge of the Contraband Department to control Greek trade during World War I.

[3] Commenting on the title of Sir Telford's book, Turkey: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Arthur Waugh remarked that it "should have been called Boxing Day.

[4] In 1925 Sir Telford Waugh married Gwendda Kate, daughter of the late A.C.