List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Belgium

List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Belgium

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

Heads of Missions

Envoys Extraordinary to the Imperial Court at Brussels

*1665: Sir William Temple, Bt.

*1763-1765: James PorterJ. Haydn, "Book of Dignities" (1851), 77-78. ]
*1765-1777: William Gordon
*1777-1783: Alleyne Fitzherbert
*1783-1792: George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington
*1792-1794: Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

"The Austrian Netherlands were then conquered by France. After the Napoleonic War, they were part of the Netherlands, then briefly known as the Kingdom of Belgium until the Belgian Revolution of 1830".

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

*1830: John, Lord Ponsonby, special mission to Provisional GovernmentJ. Haydn, "Book of Dignities" (1851), 76. ]
*1831-1835: Robert Adair, special mission
**1835-1836: Henry Lytton Bulwer, Chargé d'Affaires
*1836-1845: Sir George Hamilton Seymour
**1845-1846: Thomas Wathen Waller, Chargé d'Affaires
*1846-1868: Charles Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden
*1868-1883: John Savile, 1st Baron Savile
*1884-1892: Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian
*1900-1906: Sir Constantine Edmund Henry Phipps
*1906-1911: Arthur Henry Hardinge
*1911-1919: Sir Francis Villiers

Ambassadors

*1919-1920: Sir Francis Villiers

*1922-1928: Sir George Grahame (and Envoy to Luxembourg)
*1928-1933: Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville (and Envoy to Luxembourg)
*1933-1934: Sir George Clerk (and Envoy to Luxembourg)
*1934-1937 Sir Esmond Ovey (and Envoy to Luxembourg)
*1937-1939: Sir Robert Clive (and Minister to Luxembourg)
*1939- : Sir Lancelot Oliphant

*1944-1947: Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
*1947-1950 : Sir George Rendel
*1950-1951: Sir John Le Rougetel
*1951- : Sir Christopher Warner
*1955- : Sir George Labouchere
*1960- : Sir John Nicholls
*1963- : Sir Roderick Barclay
*1969- : Sir John Beith
*1974- : Sir David Muirhead
*1979- : Sir Peter Wakefield
*1982-1985: Sir John Edward Jackson
*1985-1989: Sir Peter Petrie, 5th Baronet
*1989-1992: Robert James O'Neill
*1992-1996: Sir John Gray
*1996-2001 David Colvin
*2001-2003 Gavin Hewitt
*2003-2007: Richard Kinchen
*2007-: Rachel Aron

ee also

*Belgian-British relations

References

External Links

* [http://www.britishembassy.gov.uk/belgium British Embassy in Belgium]


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