List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Poland

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

List of Heads of Mission

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

Before Partition

"Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary"

*1676-1678: Hon. Laurence Hyde

*1709-1710: John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
*1724-1727: Edward Finch
*1747-1755: Charles Hanbury Williams
*1756-1761: David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont

*1763-1778: Thomas Wroughton
*1778-1779: Richard OakesJ. Haydn, "Book of Dignities" (1851), 80. ]
*1779-?: James Hare
*1782-1784: Viscount Dalrymple
*1785-1787: Charles Whitworth
*1788-1791: Daniel Halles
*1791-1795 (?): William Gardiner

"In 1795, the remaining Polish territory was partitioned between Prussia, Austria, and Russia, so that there was not state of Poland until after World War I".

After World War I

*1919-1920: Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt.
*1920–1928: William Müller
*"1928": Hon. Sir William Erskine

Ambassadors

*"1928"–1934: Hon. Sir William Erskine
*1935–1941: Howard William Kennard
*1941–1943: Cecil Francis Joseph Dormer
*1943–1945: Owen St Clair O'Malley
*1945–1947: Victor Cavendish-Bentinck
*1947–1950: Donald St Clair Gainer
*1950–1952: Sir Charles Bateman
*1952–1954: Sir Francis Shepherd
*1954–1956: Sir Andrew Noble, Bt.
*1956–1960: Sir Eric Berthoud
*1960–1966: Sir George Clutton
*1966–1969: Sir Thomas Brimelow
*1969–1972: Sir Nicholas Henderson
*1972–1974: Thomas Frank Brenchley
*1974–1978: Norman Reddaway
*1978–1981: Kenneth Robert Comyn Pridham
*1981–1983: Cynlais James
*1983–1986: John Albert Leigh Morgan
*1986–1988: Brian Barder (now Sir Brian Barder KCMG)
*1988–1991: Sir Stephen Barrett
*1991–1996: Michael Llewellyn Smithcite web |url=http://ukinpoland.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/?view=News&id=3393023 |title=Former British Diplomatic Representatives to Poland |accessdate=2008-10-05 |date=2008-05-13 ]
*1996–1998: Christopher Hum
*1998–2001: John Malcolm Macgregor
*2001–2003: Sir Michael Pakenham
*2003–2007: Charles Crawford
*2007– : Ric Todd

External links

* [http://ukinpoland.fco.gov.uk/en/ British Embassy, Poland]

References