List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Greece

The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Greece is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Greece, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Greece. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic.

The modern Greek state (then the Kingdom of Greece) was established in 1832 at the London Conference of 1832 and internationally recognised in the same year by the Treaty of Constantinople, in which Greece secured full independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Besides the embassy in Athens, the UK government is represented by vice-consulates on the islands of Corfu, Crete and Rhodes, and by an honorary vice consulate on Zakynthos.

Heads of mission

Ministers plenipotentiary to the king of Greece 1833–1835: Edward DawkinsHaydn, Joseph, The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire (1851)Jones, Raymond (1983) The British Diplomatic Service, 1815-1914, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, p.198–199 1835–1849: Sir Edmund Lyons, Bt 1849–1862: Sir Thomas Wyse

Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the king of Greece 1862–1864: Peter Scarlett 1864–1872: Hon. Edward Erskine 1872–1877: Hon. William Stuart 1877–1881: Edwin Corbett 1881–1884: Clare Ford 1884–1888: Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt 1888–1892: Hon. Edmund Monson 1892–1903: Edwin Egerton 1903–1917: Sir Francis Elliot 1917–1921: Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville 1921–1922: Francis Lindley Break in diplomatic relations – see 1922 in Greece

Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the Hellenic Republic 1924–1926: Sir Milne Cheetham 1926–1929: Sir Percy Loraine, Bt 1929–1933: Hon. Patrick Ramsay 1933–1939: Sir Sydney Waterlow 1939–1943: Michael Palairet

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary 1943–1946: Sir Reginald Leeper 1946–1951: Sir Clifford Norton 1951–1957: Sir Charles Peake 1957–1961: Sir Roger Allen 1962–1967: Sir Ralph Murray 1967–1971: Sir Michael Stewart 1971–1974: Sir Robin Hooper 1974–1978: Sir Brooks Richards 1978–1982: Sir Iain Sutherland 1982–1985: Sir Peregrine Rhodes 1985–1989: Sir Jeremy Thomas 1989–1993: Sir David Miers 1993–1996: Oliver Miles 1996–1999: Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith 1999–2004: Sir David Madden 2004–2008: Sir Simon Gass 2008–2013: David Landsman 2013–2016: John Kittmer

2017–2021: Kate Smith 2021–: Matthew Lodge

References

External links UK and Greece, gov.uk