The ambassador of the Kingdom of England to Russia was the Kingdom of England's foremost diplomatic representative in Russia, otherwise known as Muscovy, heading the English diplomatic mission.
List of heads of mission Ambassadors and other envoys 1566-1567: Anthony Jenkinson AgentGary M. Bell, A handlist of British diplomatic representatives 1509-1688 (Royal Historical Society, Guides and handbooks, 16, 1990). 1568-1569; Thomas Randolph Special Ambassador 1571-1572: Anthony Jenkinson Special Ambassador 1575-1577: Daniel Silvester Special Ambassador 1583-1584: Sir Jerome Bowes Special Ambassador 1586-1587: Jerome Horsey Agent 1588-1589: Dr Giles Fletcher Special Ambassador 1590-1591: Jerome Horsey Special Ambassador 1598-1599: Sir Francis Cherry Special Ambassador 1599-1600: Thomas Willis Special Ambassador (but expelled from Russia) 1600-1601: Sir Richard Lee Special Ambassador 1601-1602: John Merrick Special Ambassador 1604-1605: Sir Thomas Smythe Special Ambassador 1613: John Merrick and William Russell Special Ambassadors 1613-1634 : Thomas Finch 1614-1617: Sir John Merrick Ambassador Extraordinary 1618: Sir Dudley Digges Special Ambassador 1620-1621: Sir John Merrick Special Ambassador 1623-1624: Christopher Cocks Agent 1626-1632: Fabian Smith Agent 1633: Thomas Wyche Agent 1633-1635: Richard Swift Agent 1635-1640: Simon Digby Agent 1655-1656: William Prideaux Special Ambassador 1657: Richard Bradshaw Special Ambassador
Ambassadors Extraordinary 1663-1665: Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle 1667-1668: Sir John Hebdon 1669: Sir Peter Wyche Envoy Extraordinary 1676-1678: John Hebdon 1686-1687: Patrick Gordon 1699-1712 : Charles Goodfellow Minister and Consul-GeneralD. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932) 1704-1707: Charles Whitworth, Envoy of England and later of Great Britain, 1704-1709; later Ambassador extraordinary of Great Britain, 1709-1711 and Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Great Britain, 1711-1712.D. D. Aldridge, ‘Whitworth, Charles, Baron Whitworth (bap. 1675, d. 1725)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 , accessed 4 April 2009
After the Union of England and Scotland In 1707 the Kingdom of England became part of the new Kingdom of Great Britain. For missions from the court of St James's after 1707, see List of ambassadors of Great Britain to Russia.
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