List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire
The first ambassador from England to the Ottoman Empire or Porte was appointed in 1583 under the reign of Elizabeth I.
- 1583-1588: William Harborne, merchant
- 1588-1596: Sir Edward Barton
- 1597-1606: Henry Lello
- 1606-1611: Sir Thomas Glover
- 1611-1620: Sir Paul Pindar
- 1621-1628: Sir Thomas Roe
- 1627-1641: Sir Peter Wyche
- 1641-1646: Sir Sackville Crowe
- 1647-1661: Sir Thomas Bendish
- 1660-1667: Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea
- 1668-1672: Sir Daniel Harvey
- 1672-1681: Sir John Finch
- 1681-1687: James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos
- 1687-1691: Sir William Trumbull[1]
- 1691: Sir William Hussey[1]
- 1691: Sir William Harbord appointed but died en route to Constantinople[1]
- 1692-1701: William Paget, 6th Baron Paget[1]
- 1698 James Rushout appointed but died before he could travel to Constantinople[1]
- 1700-1717: Sir Robert Sutton[1]
- 1716-1718: Edward Wortley Montagu husband of writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu[1]
- 1718-1730 Abraham Stanyan[1]
- 1729-1736: George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull[1]
- 1737-1746: Everard Fawkener (departed 1742)[1]
- 1742-1747: Stanhope Aspinwall In charge of affairs[1]
- 1747-1762: Sir James Porter[1]
- 1761-1764: Henry Grenville [1]
- July-November 1765: Robert Colebrooke [2]
- 1765-1775: John Murray[1]
- 1775-1793: Sir Robert Ainslie[1]
- 1793-1796: Sir Robert Liston
- 1796 - Francis-James Jackson
- 1796-1799: John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary
- 1799-1803: Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
- 1803-1804: William Drummond
- 1804-1807: Charles Arbuthnot
- 1807-1809 Sir Arthur Paget[2]
- 1808 and 1809: Sir Robert Adair special mission in 1808, Ambassador in 1809
- 1809-1812: Stratford Canning (chargé d'affaires in the absence of an ambassador during the Napoleonic Wars)
- 1812-1820: Sir Robert Liston (his second term)
- March-August 1820 Bartholemew Frere - minister plenipotentiary
- 1820-1824: Percy Clinton, Viscount Strangford
- 1824-1825: William Turner - minister plenipotentiary
- 1825-1827: Stratford Canning (again)
- 1827-1832: (British Embassy was withdrawn following the Battle of Navarino), during this period Sir Robert Gordon was envoy extraordinary and John Hobart Caradoc led a special mission to Greece and Egypt. Canning returned for a period in 1831-32 for the conferences to determine the borders of Greece, with John Henry Mandeville as minister-plenipotentiary.
- 1832-1841: John, Lord Ponsonby
- Mar-Oct 1841: Charles Bankhead minister-plenipotentiary
- 1841-1858: Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (again) with Henry Richard Charles Wellesley as minister-plenipotentiary in 1845
- 1858-1865: Sir Henry Bulwer
- 1865-1867: Richard Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons
- 1867-1877: Sir Henry Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
- 1877-1880: Sir Henry Layard
- May 1880: George Joachim Goschen (special ambassador)
- 1881-1884: Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood 5th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye
- 1884-1886: Sir Edward Thornton
- 1886-1891: Sir William White
- 1891-1893: Sir Clare Ford
- 1893-1898: Sir Philip Currie
- 1898-1908: Sir Nicholas O'Conor-Don
- 1908-1913: Sir Gerard Lowther, 1st Baronet
- ?? Sir George Barclay (briefly)
- 1913-1914 Sir Louis Mallet
From 1919 onwards, see: List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Turkey
List of other prominent British residents
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. 46, 1932)
- ^ J. M. Rigg, ‘Paget, Sir Arthur (1771–1840)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008) [1], accessed 30 Nov 2008.
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