- List of diplomats from the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire
The first ambassador from Britain to the
Ottoman Empire orPorte was appointed in 1583 under the reign ofElizabeth 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
*1691: Sir William Hussey
* 1691: Sir William Harbord appointed but died en route to Constantinople
*1692-1701:William Paget, 6th Baron Paget
*1698James Rushout appointed but died before he could travel to Constantinople???
*1710-1716: Sir Robert Sutton
*1716-1718: Edward Wortley Montagu husband of writerLady Mary Wortley Montagu
*1718-1730Abraham Stanyan
*1729-1735:George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull
*1737- 1746Everard Fawkener
*1747-1762: Sir James Porter
*1761-1764:Henry Grenville
*July-November 1765 -Robert Colebrooke [*http://www.thepeerage.com/p2544.htm#i25435 ]
*1765-1775: John Murray
*1775-1793: Sir Robert Ainslie
*1793-1796: Sir Robert Liston
*1796 -Francis-James Jackson
*1796-1799: "Spencer Smith , Minister Plenipotentiary"
*1799-1803:Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
*1803-1804:William Drummond
*1804-1807:Charles Arbuthnot
*1807-1808 Sir Arthur Paget
*1808-1809: SirRobert 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*1827-1832: "(British Embassy was withdrawn following theBattle of Navarino ), during this period Sir Robert Gordon was envoy extraordinary andJohn Hobart Caradoc led a special mission to Greece and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 ofGreece , withJohn-Henry Mandeville as minister-plenipotentiary."
*1832-1837: Lord John Ponsonby
*1837-1841: SirCharles-Richard Vaughan
*Mar-Oct 1841: "Charles Bankhead minister-plenipotentiary"
*1841-1858:Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (again) withHenry-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*1918-1919:
Somerset Gough-Calthorpe (High Commissioner)From 1919 onwards, see:
List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Turkey List of other prominent British residents
*1880s
Francis Richard Plunkett served as Diplomatic Secretary
*1876:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury - Represented Britain at the Six Powers conference in Constantinople.
* late 19th centurySir Edgar Vincent , Director-General of the Imperial Ottoman Bank
* 17th centurySir Paul Rycault - Secretary to the Ambassadour and Consul of Smyrna.
*Thomas Dallam - organ maker
*William Biddulph Protestant chaplain inAleppo
* in 1653 the Commonwealth appointed oneRichard Lawrence as agent
* 1668 - 1671 SirGeorge Etherege , restoration rake and writer, secretary to Daniel Harvey
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