List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to the Hanseatic League
The United Kingdom had a diplomatic representative to the Hanseatic League until German unification. The representative was usually only a resident, but sometimes he was also minister plenipotentiary to Lower Saxony. He was usually resident at Hamburg, which had long been an important port for British trade, and the staple port of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London.
Heads of Mission
Residents
- 1689-1700: Sir Paul Rycaut[1]
- 1702-1713: John Wich Envoy Extraordinary from 1709[1]
- 1713-1741: Cyril Wich or Wyche Chargé d'Affaires 1713-1714; Resident 1714-1719; Minister 1719-1725; Envoy Extraordinary 1712-1741; created a Baronet in 1729[1]
- 1741-1756: James Cope MP[1]
- 1757-1763: Philip Stanhope[1][2]
- 1762-1763: Robert Colbrooke[2]
Residents to the Hanse Towns and minister plenipotentiary to Lower Saxony
- 1763-1772: Ralph Woodford[1][2]
- 1772-1790: Emmanuel Matthias[1][2]
- 1790-1798: Charles Henry Fraser[2]
- 1798-1803: Sir James Crauford, Bt, also to Denmark and Meckenburg[2]
- 1803-1805: Sir George Rumbold, Bt[2]
- 1805-1807: Edward Thornton[2]
- 1807-1813: No diplomatic relations during the Continental System[3]
- 1813: Alexander Cockburn Special Mission[3]
- 1815-1820: Alexander Cockburn Envoy Extraordinary[2]
- 1820-1823: Joseph Charles Mellish Chargé d'Affaires[3]
- 1823-1836: No diplimatic representation[3]
- 1836-1841: Henry Canning Chargé d'Affaires[2]
- 1841-60: Colonel Lloyd Hodges Chargé d'Affaires[2][3]
- 1860-70: John Ward Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 79.
- ^ a b c d e S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
- ^ London Gazette: no. 22400. p. 2494. 3 July 1860. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
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