Sir Luke Schaub (1 May 1690 – 27 February 1758) was a British diplomat. He was ''

chargé d'affaires A (), plural ''chargés d'affaires'', often shortened to ''chargé'' (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to ''charge-D'', is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador. The term is Frenc ...

'' at Vienna 1715–16 and at Madrid 1719–20. He was envoy to France 1721–24, special envoy to Poland 1730–31, and envoy to Switzerland 1738–43. In January 1737 he was involved in the so-called

Salmon War The Salmon War ({{langx, de, Lachsfangstreit) of 1736/37 was a political conflict between the Old Swiss Confederacy, confederate Canton of Basle and the Kingdom of France over fishing rights and the location of their state border in the River Rhi ...

between Basle and France.

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1690 births 1758 deaths Ambassadors of Great Britain to the Holy Roman Emperor {{UK-diplomat-stub