You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (May 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:John Hall Magowan]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|John Hall Magowan}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Sir John Hall Magowan, KBE, CMG was a British diplomat. Raised in Mountnorris, Co. Armagh, he was educated at the Royal School, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin. He married Winifred Isabel and had a daughter, Ann Isabel Magowan, and two sons, William Andrew Magowan and David Magowan.

He served as British Ambassador to Venezuela from 1948 to 1951,^[1] and died while back in Northern Ireland on leave on 5 April 1951.^[2] He had been appointed British Ambassador to Thailand in December 1950, but died before he could present his credentials.