List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Portugal

The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Portugal is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Portugal, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Portugal. The official title is "Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to Portugal".

List of Heads of Mission

Ambassadors to Portugal

*1661: Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich

Envoys to Portugal

*1710-1714 George Delaval
*1722–1724: Hon. Thomas Lumley-Saunderson

Ministers to Portugal

*1757: Hon. Edward Hay

*1759–1762: Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull

*1766–1770: William Henry Lyttelton (created Lord Westcote in 1776 and Lord Lyttelton in 1794): envoy-extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary [P. J. Marshall, ‘Lyttelton, William Henry, first Baron Lyttelton and first Baron Westcote (1724–1808)’, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17311, accessed 22 March 2008] ; "Burkes Peerage and Baronetage" (1939), s.v. Cobham, Viscount]
*1771–?: Hon. Robert Walpole
*1786–?: William Fawkener (jointly with Walpole) for negotiating commercial affairs
*1800–1802: John Hookham Frere
*1802–1806: Lord Robert Stephen FitzGerald
*1806: James Earl of Rosslyn and John Earl of St Vincent, extraordinary envoys
*1806–1808: Percy Clinton, Viscount Strangford, accompanied the king to Brazil
*1808–1810: John Charles Villiers
*1810–1814: Sir Charles Stuart
*1814–1817: Thomas Sydenham
*1817–1820: Sir Edward Thornton
*1820–1823: Edward Michael Ward (chargé d'affaires)
*1823–1824: Sir Edward Thornton
*1824–1827: Sir William à Court
*1827–1831: Hon. Sir Frederick Lamb
*1833–1846: Charles Augustus Ellis, Baron Howard de Walden
*1846–1851: George Hamilton Seymour [Joseph Haydn, "Book of Dignities" (1851) [http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=buoKAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Haydn+Dignities#PPA80,M1] ]

*1866–1874: Sir Charles Murray
*1874–1876: Hon. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
*1902–1904: Martin Gosselin
*1905–1911: Francis Hyde Villiers
*1911–1913: Arthur Henry Hardinge

Ambassadors to Portugal

*1925/1926: Hon Sir Lancelot Carnegie
*1929–1931: Hon Sir Francis Lindley

*1935–?: Sir Charles Wingfield
*1937–1940: Sir Walford Harmood Montague Selby
*1940–1945: Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell
*May, 1947ndash 1954: Sir Nigel Ronald
*March 2,1955–1961: Sir Charles Stirling
*1961–1966: Sir Archibald Ross
*1966–1970: Sir Anthony Lambert
*1970–1974: Sir David Muirhead
*1974–1976: Hon. Sir Nigel Trench
*1976–1981: Hon. Sir John Moran (Lord Moran from 1977)
*1981–1986: Sir Hugh Campbell Byatt [cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U9746 |title=BYATT, Sir Hugh Campbell |work=Who's Who 2008 |publisher=A & C Black |date=2008 |accessdate=2008-10-11]
*1986-1989: Michael Simpson-Orlebar
*1989–1993: Hugh James Arbuthnott
*1993-1996: Stephen Wall
*1999–2001: John Holmes
*2001: Dame Glynne Evans

*2004–2007: John Buck
*2007– : Alexander Ellis

External links

* [http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/ British Embassy, Lisbon]

References