The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Sweden is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Sweden, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Stockholm. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden.
Earlier representation
For ambassadors from the Court of St. James's to Sweden before the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, see List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to Sweden (up to 1707) and List of ambassadors of Great Britain to Sweden (from 1707 to 1800).
List of heads of mission
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary Court of Stockholm 1800–1801: Diplomatic relations severed due to Second League of Armed Neutrality 1802–1804: Charles ArbuthnotJ. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 83-4 1804–1807: Hon. Henry Pierrepont 1807: Alexander Straton 1807: Hon. Henry Pierrepont special mission 1807–1808: Edward Thornton 1808–1809: Anthony Merry 1810–1812: Diplomatic relations severed due to Sweden's alliance with France 1811: Edward Thornton special mission 1812–1817: Edward Thornton 1817–1820: Viscount Strangford 1820–1823: William Vesey-FitzGerald 1823–1832: Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield (created a baron in 1825) 1832–1833: Lord Howard de Walden 1833–1835: Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe 1835–1838: Hon. John Duncan Bligh 1838–1850: Sir Thomas Cartwright 1850: George John Robert Gordon, Chargé d'affaires 1851–1853: Sir Edmund Lyons
King of Sweden and Norway 1854–1859: Arthur Magenis 1859–1872: George Jerningham 1872–1881: Hon. Edward Erskine 1881–1884: Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt 1884–1888: Edwin Corbett 1888–1893: Francis Richard Plunkett 1893–1896: Sir Spenser St. John 1896–1901: Hon. Sir Francis Pakenham 1902–1904: Sir William Barrington 1904–1905: Rennell Rodd
King of Sweden 1905–1908: Sir Rennell Rodd 1908–1912: Cecil Spring Rice 1913–1918: Esme Howard 1919–1924: Sir Colville Barclay 1924–1927: Arthur Grant Duff 1928–1930: Sir Tudor Vaughan 1931–1934: Sir Archibald Clark Kerr 1935–1937: Sir Michael Palairet 1938–1939: Sir Edmund Monson, 3rd BaronetFrederick Martin, Sir John Scott Keltie, Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick, Mortimer Epstein, Sigfrid Henry Steinberg, John Paxton, The Statesman's year-book, St. Martin's Press, 1939 p.1354 1939–1945: Sir Victor Mallethttp://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/988/861/88449148w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS170225843&dyn=9!xrn_12_0_CS170225843&hst_1?sw_aep=wornews Times on-line archive 1945–1948: Sir Bertrand Jerram
Ambassadors to Sweden 1948–1951: Sir Harold Farquhar 1951–1954: Sir Roger Stevens 1954–1960: Hon. Sir Robert Hankey 1960–1963: Sir John Coulson 1963–1966: Sir Moore Crosthwaite 1966–1971: Sir Archibald Ross 1971–1974: Sir Guy Millard 1974–1977: Sir Sam Falle 1977–1980: Sir Jeffrey Petersen 1980–1984: Sir Donald Murray 1984–1987: Sir Richard Parsons 1987–1991: Sir John Ure 1991–1995: Robert Cormack 1995–1999: Sir Roger BoneBritish Diplomats Directory 1999–2003: John Grant CMG (later Sir John Grant KCMG) 2003–2006: Anthony Cary 2006–2011: Andrew Jonathan Mitchell 2011–2015: Paul JohnstonChange of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Sweden, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 8 October 2010 2015–2019: David CairnsDavid Cairns, British Ambassador to Sweden, gov.uk (retrieved 15 September 2015) 2019-2024: Judith GoughChange of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Sweden – August 2019, gov.uk (retrieved 1 October 2019)
2024–: Samantha Job
References
External links UK and Sweden, gov.uk