List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Sardinia

Below is an incomplete list of diplomats from the United Kingdom to Sardinia and its predecessor Savoy, specifically Heads of Missions.

Heads of Missions Ambassadors to Savoy 1611–1612: Henry Wotton 1614–1615: Sir Albertus Morton 1615–1624: Sir Isaac Wake (Resident Agent) 1671–1690: Marquis of St Thomas, John Finch and Sir William SoameThe National Archives catalogues, class SP 92. The evidence consists of the names of those corresponding with the British Secretaries of States. 1691–1693: Edmund Poley D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932) 1693–1694: Dr William Aglionby 1693–1704: The Earl of Galway (absent from 1696)Harman Murtagh, 'Massue de Ruvigny, Henri de, Earl of Galway, and Marquess of Ruvigny in the French nobility (1648–1720)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sep 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 , accessed 17 April 2009] (Viscount Galway until 1697) 1699 and 1703–1706: Richard Hill 1706: Paul MethuenKarl Wolfgang Schweizer, 'Methuen, Sir Paul (c.1672–1757)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, Sep 2004; online edn, Oct 2008) , accessed 3 November 2008 1706–1713: John Chetwynd, later Viscount Chetwynd.Burke's Peerage (1939), s.v. ChetwyndLondon Gazette, 5169, 31 October 1713 1708–1713: Maj. Gen. Francis Palmes 1710–1713: Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough Special Mission 1710–1711; Minister Plenipotentiary 1712; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 1713 In 1713, after the Treaty of Utrecht, Duke of Savoy, Victor Amadeus II became King of Sicily (until 1718, de jure until 1720) 1714: George St. John (died 1716 at Venice) 1713–1719: J. Payne, James Cockburn In 1720, the House of Savoy acquired, after the Treaty of The Hague, the island of Sardinia, and their State was subsequently known as the Kingdom of Sardinia (even though Sardinia and Savoy remained legally separated as two different states until the Perfect Fusion in 1847).

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary 1719–1725: John Molesworth 1726–1727: John Hedges Envoy Extraordinary 1728–1732: Edmund Allen in charge 1727–1728; Secretary 1728–1734 1731–1736: The Earl of Essex Minister Plenipotentiary 1731–1732; Ambassador 1732–1736 1736–1749: Arthur Villettes Resident 1747: Lieut-Gen. Thomas Wentworth Special Mission 1749–1755: William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford 1755–1758: The Earl of Bristol Envoy Extraordinary 1758–1761: James Stuart-Mackenzie Envoy Extraordinary 1758–1760; then Envoy Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryHaydn, Joseph - The Book of Dignities (1851), 82. 1761–1768: George Pitt, 1st Baron RiversG. F. R. Barker, 'Pitt, George, first Baron Rivers (1721–1803)’, rev. R. D. E. Eagles, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004) accessed 24 August 2008. 1768–1779: William Lynch Envoy Extraordinary 1768–1770; then Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 1779–1783: John Stuart, Viscount Mountstuart 1783–1797: Hon. John Hampden-Trevor Envoy Extraordinary 1783–1789; then Envoy Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryS. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789–1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934). 1798–1799: No representation due to the French occupation of Turin 1799–1806: Thomas Jackson Diplomatic relations suspended 1806–1808 1807–1824: Hon. William Hill 1824–1840: Augustus Foster 1840–1851: Hon. Ralph Abercromby 1852–1861: James Hudson

Hudson became in 1861 the first Envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotenziary to the Kingdom of Italy when the King of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel II, changed his title in King of Italy. See also List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Italy.

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