List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France

The British Ambassador to France is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in France, and is the head of Britain's diplomatic mission in Paris.

List of ambassadors

English ambassadors and Ministers to France

1446: Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham^[1]
1505: Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester
1514–1515: Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
1518–1520: Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
1520-1525: Richard Wingfield
1529-?: Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Periods in 1540s and 1550s: Nicholas Wotton
1559–1564: Nicholas Throckmorton
1564–1566: Thomas Smith
1566: Thomas Hoby
1566–1570: Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys
1570–1573: Francis Walsingham
1573–1576: Valentine Dale
1576–1579: Amias Paulet
1579–1583: Henry Cobham (Henry Brooke)
1583–1590: Edward Stafford
1591–1592: Henry Unton^[2]
- 1592–1596: Thomas Edmondes Chargé d'affaires^[2]
1596–1597: Anthony Mildmay^[3]
- 1597–1599: Thomas Edmondes Chargé d'affaires^[2]
1599–1600: Henry Neville^[2]
- 1601 Thomas Edmondes, Special Ambassador^[4]^[5]
1602–1606: Thomas Parry^[5]
- 1604: James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle^[5]
- 1604–1605: Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox^[5]
1605–1609: George Carew Resident ambassador^[2]^[5]
- 1606: William Godolphin^[5]
1609–1610: William Beecher Chargé d'Affaires^[5]
1610–1617: Thomas Edmondes Resident Ambassador ^[2]^[4]^[5]
- 1610: Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton^[5]
- 1616: James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle^[5]
1617–1619: William Beecher Agent (Chargé d'Affaires)^[5]
1619–1624: Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Resident Ambassador (but not Sept 1621 to June 1622)^[5]
1621–1622: James Hay, Viscount Doncaster^[5]
- 1624–1625: Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland^[5]
- 1624–1625: James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle^[5]
1624–1625: George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich Agent^[5]
- 1625: George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham^[5]
1625–1627: Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh appointed Resident Ambassador, but did not go^[5]
- 1625: Thomas Lorkin Agent^[5]
- 1625–1626: Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland and Dudley Carleton^[5]
1626–1627: William Lewis Agent^[5]
- 1626: Dudley Carleton, Lord Carleton^[5]
- 1626: Walter Montagu
1626–1627: John Hawkins^[5]
1627–1628: Walter Montagu^[5]
- 1629–1630: Thomas Edmonds, Special mission^[2]^[4]
1629–1640: Réné Augier Agent (with de Vic)
1630–1636: Henry de Vic Agent or Chargé d'affaires when there was no ambassador^[5]
- 1630–1631: Walter Montagu Ambassador (3 special missions)^[5]
- 1631–1632: Isaac Wake^[5]
- 1631–1633: Jerome Weston Special Mission^[5]
1635–1639: John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore Ambassador Ordinary^[5]
1636–1641: Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
- 1639–1640: Thomas Windebank^[5]
1641–1650: Richard Browne Agent (for Charles I, then representing the exiled Charles II)^[5]
- 1642–1643: William Kerr, 3rd Earl of Lothian (for Scots Privy Council and Charles I)^[5]
1643–1644: George Goring, Lord Goring (for Charles I)^[5]
1644–1651: Réné Augier Agent; then Resident Ambassador (for Parliament)^[5]
1651–1655: Réné Petit Agent^[5]
1655–1656: Réné Augier Agent^[5]
1656–1659: William Lockhart of Lee Ambassador^[5]
- 1658: Thomas Belasyse, Viscount Fauconberg^[5]
1660: William Crofts, 1st Baron Crofts Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
1660–1661: Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
- 1661: Samuel Tuke Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
1661-?: William Crofts, 1st Baron Crofts and Laurence Hyde Special Ambassadors^[5]
1662: Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
1662–1663: Ralph Montagu Agent?^[5]
1662–1666: Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
1666–1668: Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans^[5]
1668: John Trevor^[5]
1669–1672: Ralph Montagu^[5]
- 1669 and 1670: Charles Sackville, Baron Buckhurst
- 1670: George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
- 1671: John Belasyse, Baron Belasyse^[5]
- 1671 and 1672: Sidney Godolphin^[5]
1672–1677: William Perwich Agent (and Chargé d'affaires when no ambassador)^[5]
1672: Henry Savile, Ambassador^[5]
1672: Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory^[5]
1672–1673: Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland^[5]
1673: Edward Spragge^[5]
1673–1675: William Lockhart of Lee^[5]
- 1673: Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, 'made diplomatic contact in France, Apr. 1673, on his way to the Emperor'^[5]
- 1674: Bevil Skelton Secret Mission^[5]
1675–1676: John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
1676–1678: Ralph Montagu Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
1676–1679: John Brisbane Agent; and then Chargé d'affaires^[5]
- 1677: Louis Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham Special Ambassador^[5]
1678–1679: Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
1679–1682: Henry Savile, Envoy Extraordinary^[5]
1682–1685: Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston, Envoy Extraordinary^[5]
- 1682: Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]'
- 1683: George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton Special Ambassador^[5]
- 1683–1684: James Hamilton, Earl of Arran Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
1685: John Churchill, Baron Churchill Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
1685–1686: William Trumbull Ambassador Extraordinary^[5]
1686–1688: Bevil Skelton Envoy Extraordinary^[5]
1688–1689: Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave Envoy Extraordinary^[5]

Ambassadors Extraordinary, from 1689

No representation 1689–1697 due to the Nine Years' War
1697–1698: The Earl of Portland^[6]
1698–1699: The Earl of Jersey^[6]
1699–1701: The Earl of Manchester^[6]
No representation from 1701 to 1712, due to the War of the Spanish Succession^[6]

Ambassadors and ministers of Great Britain to France

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- 1709: Charles Townshend, Viscount Townshend Plenipotentiary^[6]
1712: The Duke of Hamilton (never took office, being killed in a celebrated duel before setting off)
- 1712–1715: Matthew Prior, Plenipotentiary^[6]
1712–1713: The Duke of Shrewsbury^[6]
1714–1720: The Earl of Stair, Minister-Plenipotentiary 1714–1715; Envoy Extraordinary 1715; then Ambassador^[6]
1720–1721: Sir Robert Sutton, Ambassador^[6]
1721–1724: Sir Luke Schaub^[6]
1724–1730: The Lord Walpole of Wolterton Envoy Extraordinary 1724; Ambassador Extraordinary 1724–1727; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 1727–1730^[6]
1730–1740: The Earl Waldegrave^[6]
1740–1744: Anthony Thompson, Chargé d'Affaires^[6]
no representation 1744–1748 due to the War of the Austrian Succession
1749–1754: The Earl of Albemarle^[6]
no representation 1754–1762 due to the Seven Years' War
- 1761: Hans Stanley, Minister: special mission to negotiate peace^[6]
1762–1763: The Duke of Bedford^[6]
1763–1765: The Earl of Hertford^[6]
1765–1766: The Duke of Richmond^[6]
1766–1768: The Earl of Rochford^[6]
1768–1772: The Earl Harcourt^[6]
1772–1778: The Viscount Stormont^[6]
no representation 1778–1782 due to American Revolutionary War
1782: Thomas Grenville, Minister^[6]
1782–1783: Alleyne FitzHerbert, Minister Plenipotentiary^[6]
1783–1784: The Duke of Manchester^[6]
1784–1789: John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary^[6]^[7]
- 1789–1790: Embassy Secretary Lord Robert Stephen FitzGerald (1765–1833), son of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, acted as Minister Plenipotentiary from 8 August 1789 to 20 June 1790^[7]
1790–1792: Earl Gower, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary^[7]
No representation after 1792, due to the French Revolutionary Wars. Diplomatic relations were severed until 1801.^[7]
- 1797: James Harris, Baron Malmesbury, Plenipotentiary^[7]

British Ambassadors and Ministers to France

There was no representation of Great Britain or the United Kingdom in France from 1792 to 1801, due to the French Revolutionary Wars

1801–1802: The Marquess Cornwallis, Plenipotentiary
1802–1803: The Lord Whitworth^[7]

No representation from 1803 to 1814, due to the Napoleonic Wars

1806: Francis Seymour-Conway, Earl of Yarmouth and James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, Plenipotentiaries ^[7]

1814–1815: The Duke of Wellington^[7]
1815–1824: Sir Charles Stuart^[7]
1824–1828: The Viscount Granville^[7]
1828–1830: The Lord Stuart de Rothesay^[7]
1830–1835: The Viscount Granville^[7]
1835: The Lord Cowley^[7]
1835–1841: The Earl Granville^[7]
1841–1846: The Lord Cowley^[7]
1846–1852: The Marquess of Normanby^[7]
1852–1867: The Earl Cowley^[7]
1867–1887: The Viscount Lyons
1887–1891: The Earl of Lytton
1891–1896: The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
1896–1905: Sir Edmund Monson^[8]
1905–1918: Sir Francis Bertie
1918–1920: The Earl of Derby
1920–1922: The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
1922–1928: The Marquess of Crewe
1928–1934: Sir William Tyrrell
1934–1937: Sir George Clerk
1937–1939: Sir Eric Phipps
1939–1940: Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell

No representation from 1940 to 1944, due to the German occupation of France during the Second World War

1944–1948: Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, (previously Representative to the Free French in Algiers from 1943)
1948–1954: Sir Oliver Harvey
1954–1960: Sir Gladwyn Jebb
1960–1965: Sir Pierson Dixon
1965–1968: Sir Patrick Reilly
1968–1972: Sir Christopher Soames
1972–1975: Sir Edward Tomkins
1975–1979: Sir Nicholas Henderson
1979–1982: Sir Reginald Hibbert
1982–1987: Sir John Fretwell
1987–1993: Sir Ewen Fergusson
1993–1996: Sir Christopher Mallaby
1996–2001: Sir Michael Jay
2001–2007: Sir John Holmes
2007–2012: Sir Peter Westmacott
2012–2015: Sir Peter Ricketts
2016–2016: Sir Julian King
2016–2021: Edward Llewellyn, Baron Llewellyn of Steep OBE
2021–present^[update]: Dame Menna Rawlings^[9]

List Of Ambassadors Of The United Kingdom To France Media

Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by François Gérard, 1814. Painted while Wellington was serving as ambassador.

Related pages

List of ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom since 1803

References

List of Ambassadors to France since 1814, British Embassy, France

↑ Cokayne, G. E. (1889). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. [1].
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 M. Greengrass, ‘Edmondes, Sir Thomas (d. 1639)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [2], accessed 12 Jan 2009.
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↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 J. Palmer, A Biographical History of England (1824), 86.
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↑ ^6.00 ^6.01 ^6.02 ^6.03 ^6.04 ^6.05 ^6.06 ^6.07 ^6.08 ^6.09 ^6.10 ^6.11 ^6.12 ^6.13 ^6.14 ^6.15 ^6.16 ^6.17 ^6.18 ^6.19 ^6.20 ^6.21 ^6.22 ^6.23 ^6.24 ^6.25 D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)
↑ ^7.00 ^7.01 ^7.02 ^7.03 ^7.04 ^7.05 ^7.06 ^7.07 ^7.08 ^7.09 ^7.10 ^7.11 ^7.12 ^7.13 ^7.14 ^7.15 ^7.16 Bindoff, S. T.; Smith, E. F. Malcolm; Webster, C. K. (1934). "British Diplomatic Representatives (1789–1852)". Camden Third Series, Volume 50. London: Royal Historical Society. pp. 47–48.
↑ No. 26786. 16 October 1896. p. 5677. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26786/page/5677
↑ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to France: Menna Rawlings". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2021-08-09.

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[1] Cokayne, G. E. (1889). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. 2 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. [1].

[ODNB_Edmondes-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 M. Greengrass, ‘Edmondes, Sir Thomas (d. 1639)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [2], accessed 12 Jan 2009.

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[Palmer-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 J. Palmer, A Biographical History of England (1824), 86.

[Bell-5] 5.00 ^5.01 ^5.02 ^5.03 ^5.04 ^5.05 ^5.06 ^5.07 ^5.08 ^5.09 ^5.10 ^5.11 ^5.12 ^5.13 ^5.14 ^5.15 ^5.16 ^5.17 ^5.18 ^5.19 ^5.20 ^5.21 ^5.22 ^5.23 ^5.24 ^5.25 ^5.26 ^5.27 ^5.28 ^5.29 ^5.30 ^5.31 ^5.32 ^5.33 ^5.34 ^5.35 ^5.36 ^5.37 ^5.38 ^5.39 ^5.40 ^5.41 ^5.42 ^5.43 ^5.44 ^5.45 ^5.46 ^5.47 ^5.48 ^5.49 ^5.50 ^5.51 ^5.52 ^5.53 ^5.54 ^5.55 ^5.56 ^5.57 ^5.58 ^5.59 ^5.60 ^5.61 ^5.62 ^5.63 ^5.64 ^5.65 ^5.66 ^5.67 ^5.68 ^5.69 ^5.70 ^5.71 ^5.72 Gary M. Bell, A handlist of British diplomatic representatives 1509–1688 (Royal Historical Society, Guides and handbooks, 16, 1990).

[Horn-6] 6.00 ^6.01 ^6.02 ^6.03 ^6.04 ^6.05 ^6.06 ^6.07 ^6.08 ^6.09 ^6.10 ^6.11 ^6.12 ^6.13 ^6.14 ^6.15 ^6.16 ^6.17 ^6.18 ^6.19 ^6.20 ^6.21 ^6.22 ^6.23 ^6.24 ^6.25 D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)

[DipReps2-7] 7.00 ^7.01 ^7.02 ^7.03 ^7.04 ^7.05 ^7.06 ^7.07 ^7.08 ^7.09 ^7.10 ^7.11 ^7.12 ^7.13 ^7.14 ^7.15 ^7.16 Bindoff, S. T.; Smith, E. F. Malcolm; Webster, C. K. (1934). "British Diplomatic Representatives (1789–1852)". Camden Third Series, Volume 50. London: Royal Historical Society. pp. 47–48.

[8] No. 26786. 16 October 1896. p. 5677. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26786/page/5677

[9] "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to France: Menna Rawlings". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2021-08-09.

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