List of diplomats from the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire

List of diplomats from the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire

The first ambassador from Britain 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
*1691: Sir William Hussey
* 1691: Sir William Harbord appointed but died en route to Constantinople
*1692-1701: William Paget, 6th Baron Paget
*1698 James Rushout appointed but died before he could travel to Constantinople???
*1710-1716: Sir Robert Sutton
*1716-1718: Edward Wortley Montagu husband of writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
*1718-1730 Abraham Stanyan
*1729-1735: George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull
*1737- 1746 Everard 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: 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*1827-1832: "(British Embassy was withdrawn following the Battle of Navarino), during this period Sir Robert Gordon was envoy extraordinary and John Hobart Caradoc led a special mission to Greece and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."
*1832-1837: Lord John Ponsonby
*1837-1841: Sir Charles-Richard Vaughan
*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

*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 century Sir Edgar Vincent, Director-General of the Imperial Ottoman Bank
* 17th century Sir Paul Rycault - Secretary to the Ambassadour and Consul of Smyrna.
* Thomas Dallam - organ maker
* William Biddulph Protestant chaplain in Aleppo
* in 1653 the Commonwealth appointed one Richard Lawrence as agent
* 1668 - 1671 Sir George Etherege, restoration rake and writer, secretary to Daniel Harvey


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