List of diplomats from the United Kingdom to the Hanseatic League
- List of diplomats from the United Kingdom to the Hanseatic League
The United Kingdom had a diplomatic repesentative 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
* ?-1763: Philip Stanhope[J. Haydn, "Book of Dignities" (1851), 79. ] ]
*1762-1763: Robert Colbrooke
*1763-1772: Ralph Woodford
*1772-1790: Emmanuel MatthiasResidents to the Hanse Towns and minister plenipotentiary to Lower Saxony
*1790-1798: Charles Henry Fraser
*1798-1803: Sir James Crauford, Bt, also to Denmark and Meckenburg
*1803-1805: Sir George Rumbold, Bt
*1805-?: Edward Thornton
**1811: Alexander Cockburn "Special Mission"
*1815-1836: Alexander Cockburn "Envoy Extraordinary"
*1836-1841: Henry Canning "Chargé d'Affaires"
*1841-?: Colonel Lloyd Hodges "Chargé d'Affaires"
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