The ambassador of Great Britain to the Holy Roman Emperor was the foremost diplomatic representative of the Kingdom of Great Britain, a state created in 1707 by the Union of England and Scotland, to the Holy Roman Emperor. The Embassy was a prestigious posting in the British foreign service.
For the ambassadors from the Court of St. James's up to 1707, see List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to the Holy Roman Emperor and for the period since 1800, see List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Austria.
List of heads of mission
Envoys-Extraordinary and Ambassadors to the Holy Roman Emperor 1707–1709: Sir Philip Meadowes Envoy ExtraordinaryD. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)The National Archives catalogue, Class SP 80 1707–1708 and 1709–1711: Maj.-Gen. Francis Palmes Envoy Extraordinary 1710–1711: Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough Special Mission 1711–1714: Simon Clement Chargé d'Affaires 1711: Charles Whitworth Ambassador 1712–1713: Abraham Stanyan (not in Vienna) 1714: James Stahope sent with Baron Cobham 1714–1715: Richard Temple, 1st Baron Cobham 1715: George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter (appointed but did not go)London Gazette 5344, 5 July 1715H. M. Stephens, ‘Carpenter, George, first Baron Carpenter of Killaghy (1657–1732)’, rev. Timothy Harrison Place, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 , accessed 12 April 2009 1715–1716: Luke Schaub in charge 1716–1718: Abraham Stanyan Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton (1718) 1718: Luke Schaub and François-Louis de Pesmes de Saint-Saphorin Chargés d'Affaires 1718–1727: François-Louis de Pesmes de Saint-Saphorin Chargé d'Affaires 1719–1720: The Earl Cadogan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 1721: Colonel Charles Churchill Special Mission 1721–1724: Francis Colman Secretary 1724–1725: Charles Harrison Minister or Resident 1726–1727: George Woodward Secretary 1727–1730: James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave Ambassador 1730–1748: Thomas Robinson Minister Plenipotentiary (but sometimes called Envoy Extraordinary) 1742–1747: James Porter Commissary 1742–1743: Thomas Villiers Special Mission 1748–1757: Robert Keith (d. 1774) Minister 1748–1753; then Minister Plenipotentiary 1752: John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford Special Mission 1757–1763: No diplomatic relations due to Seven Years' War
Envoys-Extraordinary and Ministers-Plenipotentiary to the Holy Roman Emperor
1763–1772: David Murray, Viscount Stormont Ambassador 1772–1792: Robert Murray Keith (the younger) 1790: The Earl of Elgin Envoy-Extraordinary 1792–1793 The Earl of Elgin 1793–1794 Sir Morton Eden 1794: George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer Ambassador-Extraordinary 1794–1798: Sir Morton Eden (again) 1799–1801: Gilbert, Earl of Minto
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