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In the same year, December 10, Nicolò Tron was appointed ambassador to Queen Anne of Great Britain. The task entrusted to him was to seek support from the British court in the wars that the Serenissima was leading against the Turks. Tron arrived in London one year and half later, in June 1714; In the meantime Queen Anne was succeeded by George I. But to the court environment, Tron prefer the association of scientists and mathematicians, such as Isaac Newton, who appointed him a fellow to the Royal Society, John Theophilus Desaguliers, French mathematician and physicist founder June 14, 1714 of the Grand Loggia, or modern masonry and entrepreneurs such as Benjamin Berck, a famous panni-lani manufacturer who showed him the most modern techniques used in England for such of manufactures. The government of Venice was not particularly pleased with the life the ambassador was conducting, and after sending him some letters recalling his duties, he decided to support him with a sort of lieutenant, a cavalier Giacomo Querini, whose presence was accepted and endured. from Tron without any particular problems