List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Switzerland

The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Switzerland is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Switzerland, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Switzerland. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to Switzerland.

1 List of heads of mission
2 External links
3 References

List of heads of mission

Envoys Extraordinary

1689-1692: Thomas Coxe^[1]
1689–1702: Philibert de Hervart, baron van Hüningen (to the Republic of Geneva only 1689-1692)^[1]
1702–1705: William Aglionby extraordinary envoy^[1]
1705–1714: Abraham Stanyan (also to the Grisons 1707-1714)^[1]
1710 and 1715–1717: James Dayrolle Resident at Geneva^[1]
1716-1722: Francis Manning (also Secretary to the Grisons at Coire 1709-1713)^[1]

Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Cantons

1717-1762: Armand Louis de St. George, Comte de Marsay Minster at Geneva 1717-34; Minister Resident to the Helvetic Republic and the Grisons Leagues 1734-1739; Minster at Geneva 1739-1762^[1]
1738–1743: Sir Luke Schaub (a diplomat)^[2]
1743–1749: John Burnaby Minister^[1]^[2]
1743-1750: Jerome de Salis Envoy Extraordinary to the Grisons Leagues^[1]
1750–1762: Arthur Villettes Minister^[1]^[2]^[3]
1762-1765: Robert Colebrooke Minister^[1]
1763-1765: James, Count of Pictet Minister to the Republic of Geneva^[1]
1765–1783: William Norton (but absent 1769-1776)^[2]^[3]
- 1769-1776: Jean Gabriel Catt Chargé d'Affaires^[1]
- 1772-1774: Isaac Pictet Chargé d'Affaires at Geneva^[1]^[2]
- 1777-1792: Louis Braun Chargé d'Affaires^[1]^[2]^[3]
1792–1795: Lord Robert Stephen Fitzgerald ^[4]
1795–1797: William Wickham ^[5] also Special Mission 1794-1795^[6]
1797: James Talbot Chargé d'Affaires^[3]^[6]
1797-1814: No diplomatic relations

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated Swiss Cantons

1814–1820: Stratford Canning ^[7]
1820–1822: William Cromwell Disbrowe Chargé d'Affaires^[3]
1822–1823: Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn ^[8]

Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated States of the Swiss Cantons

1823–1825: Charles Richard Vaughan ^[9]
1825–1832: Hon. Algernon Percy ^[10]
1832–1847: David Richard Morier ^[11]
- 1847: Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto Special Mission^[6]
- 1847–1848: Sir Stratford CanningSpecial Mission^[6]
1848–1849: Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley ^[12]
1849–1851: Sir Edmund Lyons, 1st Bt ^[13]

Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation

1851–1852: Arthur Charles Magenis ^[14]
1852–1853: Andrew Buchanan ^[15]
1853–1854: Hon. Charles Augustus Murray ^[16]
1854–1858: George John Robert Gordon ^[17]
1858–1867: Hon. Edward Harris ^[18]

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation

1867–1868: John Lumley-Savile ^[19]
1868-1874: Alfred Guthrie Graham Bonar ^[20]

Resident Minister to the Swiss Confederation

1874–1878: Edwin Corbett ^[21]
1878–1879: Sir Horace Rumbold, 8th Bt ^[22]
1879–1881: Hon. Hussey Crespigny Vivian ^[23]

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation

Mar – Jul 1881: Hon. Hussey Crespigny Vivian ^[24]
1881–1888: Francis Ottiwell Adams ^[25]
1888–1893: Charles Stewart Scott ^[26]
1893–1901: Frederick Robert St John ^[27]
1901–1905: Sir Conyngham Greene ^[28]
1905–1909: Sir George Francis Bonham, 2nd Bt ^[29]
1909–1911: Henry George Outram Bax-Ironside ^[30]
1911–1913: Esme William Howard ^[31]
1913–1919: Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff ^[32]
1919–1922: Hon. Theo William Odo Villiers Russell ^[33]
1922–1924: Sir Milne Cheetham ^[34]
1924–1928: Howland Arthur Charles Sperling ^[35]
1928–1931: Claud Frederick William Russell ^[36]
1931–1935: Sir Howard William Kennard ^[37]
1935–1940: Sir George Redston Warner ^[38]
1940–1946: David Victor Kelly ^[39]
1946–1950: Thomas Maitland Snow ^[40]
1950–1953: Sir Patrick Stratford Scrivener ^[41]

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation

May – Dec 1953: Sir Patrick Stratford Scrivener ^[42]
1953–1958: Sir Lionel Henry Lamb^[43]
1958–1960: Sir William Horace Montagu-Pollock ^[44]
1960–1964: Paul Francis Grey ^[45]
1964–1968: Robert Spencer Isaacson ^[46]
1968–1970: Henry Arthur Frederick Hohler ^[47]
1970–1973: Eric Atkinson Midgley ^[48]
1973–1976: John Richard Wraight ^[49]
1976–1980: Alan Keir Rothnie ^[50]
1980–1982: Charles Sydney Rycroft Giffard ^[51]
1982–1984: John Ernest Powell-Jones^[52]
1984–1988: John Rich^[52]
1988–1992: Christopher William Long^[52]
1992–1997: David Beattie^[52]
1997–2001: Christopher Hulse^[52]
2001–2004: Basil Eastwood^[52]
2004–2008: Simon Featherstone^[52]
2008-2009: John Nichols^[52]
2009-present: Sarah Gillett^[53]

External links

British Embassy in Switzerland

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. XLVI, 1932).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f The National Archives, Class SP96
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 84.
^ London Gazette: no. 13413. p. 293. 8 May 1792. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 13794. p. 7171. 7 July 1795. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
^ London Gazette: no. 16908. p. 1233. 14 June 1814. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 17783. p. 98. 19 January 1822. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 17894. p. 211. 8 February 1823. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 18161. p. 1357. 2 August 1825. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 18942. p. 1296. 5 June 1832. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 20850. p. 1655. 28 April 1848. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 20943. p. 391. 9 February 1849. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 21175. p. 209. 28 January 1851. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 21294. p. 525. 24 February 1852. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 21411. p. 407. 15 February 1853. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 21604. p. 3019. 6 October 1854. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 22121. p. 1687. 2 April 1858. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 23297. p. 4865. 30 August 1867. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 23434. p. 5555. 23 October 1868. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 24106. p. 3095. 19 June 1874. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 24547. p. 457. 29 January 1878. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 24772. p. 5977. 17 October 1879. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 24953. p. 1306. 22 March 1881. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 24999. p. 3670. 26 July 1881. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 25827. p. 3310. 15 June 1888. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 26362. p. 137. 10 January 1893. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 27314. p. 3379. 17 May 1901. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 27874. p. 285. 12 January 1906. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 28225. p. 1306. 19 February 1909. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 28462. p. 852. 1 August 1913. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 28742. p. 5487. 9 February 1911. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 31663. p. 14674. 28 November 1919. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 32781. p. 9161. 29 December 1922. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 32914. p. 1822. 29 February 1924. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 33353. p. 757. 3 February 1928. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 33735. p. 4626. 14 July 1931. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 34129. p. 766. 1 February 1935. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 34799. p. 1100. 23 February 1940. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 37588. p. 2627. 31 May 1946. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 38952. p. 3257. 23 June 1950. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 39926. p. 4133. 28 July 1953. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 40066. p. 162. 5 January 1954. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 41485. p. 5336. 29 August 1958. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 42346. p. 3340. 5 May 1961. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 43432. p. 7669. 11 September 1964. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 44554. p. 3557. 26 March 1968. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 45142. p. 7378. 3 July 1970. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 46026. p. 8058. 12 July 1973. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 46993. p. 11269. 17 August 1976. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
^ London Gazette: no. 48325. p. 13693. 1 October 1980. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Previous Ambassadors". http://ukinswitzerland.fco.gov.uk/en/our-offices-in-switzerland/our-ambassador/previous-ambassadors. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
^ "Current Ambassador". http://ukinswitzerland.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/our-embassy/our-ambassador. Retrieved 2011-09-06.

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List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Switzerland

Contents

List of heads of mission

Envoys Extraordinary

Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Cantons

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated Swiss Cantons

Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated States of the Swiss Cantons

Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation

Resident Minister to the Swiss Confederation

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation

External links

References