List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire

This is a list of diplomats of the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire.

Ambassadors from England

The first ambassador from England to the Ottoman Empire or Porte was appointed in 1583 under the reign of Elizabeth I.

1583-1588: William Harborne, merchant 1588-1598: Sir Edward Barton 1598-1606: Sir Henry Lello 1606-1611: Sir Thomas Glover 1611-1620: Sir Paul Pindar 1621-1628: Sir Thomas Roe 1627-1641: Sir Peter Wyche 1641-1646: Sir Sackville Crowe 1647-1661: Sir Thomas Bendish 1660-1667: Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 1668-1672: Sir Daniel Harvey 1672-1681: Sir John Finch 1681-1687: James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos 1687-1691: Sir William Trumbull 1691: Sir William Hussey 1691: Sir William Harbord appointed but died en route to Constantinople 1692-1701: William Paget, 6th Baron Paget 1698 James Rushout appointed but died before he could travel to Constantinople

Ambassadors from Great Britain

1700-1717: Sir Robert SuttonD. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932) 1716-1718: Edward Wortley Montagu, husband of writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1718-1730 Abraham Stanyan 1729-1737: George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull 1737-1746: Everard Fawkener (departed 1742) 1742-1747: Stanhope Aspinwall In charge of affairs 1747-1762: Sir James Porter 1761-1764: Henry Grenville July–November 1765: Robert Colebrookethepeerage.com 1765-1775: John Murray 1775-1793: Sir Robert Ainslie 1793-1796: Sir Robert Liston 1796 - Francis James Jackson 1796-1799: John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary

Ambassadors from the United Kingdom

1799-1803: Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin 1803 (Jan-May): Alexander Straton (minister plenipotentiary)Alfred C. Wood, A History of the Levant Company, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1935, pp. 183-184. 1803-1804: William Drummond 1804-1807: Charles Arbuthnot 1807-1809 Sir Arthur PagetJ. M. Rigg, Paget, Sir Arthur (1771–1840), H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008), accessed 30 Nov 2008. 1808 and 1809: Sir Robert Adair special mission in 1808, Ambassador in 1809 1809-1812: Stratford Canning (chargé d'affaires in the absence of an ambassador during the Napoleonic Wars) 1812-1820: Sir Robert Liston (his second term) March–August 1820 Bartholomew Frere - minister plenipotentiary 1820-1824: Percy Clinton, Viscount Strangford 1824-1825: William Turner - minister plenipotentiary 1825-1827: Stratford Canning (again) 1827-1832: (British Embassy was withdrawn following the Battle of Navarino), during this period Sir Robert Gordon was envoy extraordinary and John Hobart Caradoc led a special mission to Greece and Egypt. Canning returned for a period in 1831-32 for the conferences to determine the borders of Greece, with John Henry Mandeville as minister-plenipotentiary. 1832-1841: John, Lord Ponsonby Mar-Oct 1841: Charles Bankhead minister-plenipotentiary 1841-1858: Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (again) with Henry Richard Charles Wellesley as minister-plenipotentiary in 1845 1858-1865: Sir Henry Bulwer 1865-1867: Richard Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons 1867-1877: Sir Henry Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound 1877-1880: Sir Henry Layard May 1880: George Joachim Goschen (special ambassador) 1881-1884: Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin 1884-1886: Sir Edward Thornton 1886-1891: Sir William White 1891-1893: Sir Clare Ford 1893-1898: Sir Philip Currie 1898-1908: Sir Nicholas O'Conor-Don Apr–Jul 1908: Sir George Head Barclay 1908-1913: Sir Gerard Lowther, 1st Baronet 1913-1914: Sir Louis Mallet 1914-1918: no diplomatic relations due to World War I 1918-1919: Somerset Gough-Calthorpe (British High Commissioner), also Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet 1919-1920: John de Robeck (British High Commissioner), also Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet 1920-1923: Sir Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet (British High Commissioner at Constantinople). 1923-1924: British representative to Turkey. From 1925 onwards, following the formation of the Republic of Turkey, see: List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Turkey

List of other prominent British residents 1880s: Francis Richard Plunkett served as Diplomatic Secretary 1876: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury - Represented Britain at the Six Powers Constantinople Conference. late 19th century: Sir Edgar Vincent, Director-General of the Imperial Ottoman Bank 17th century: Sir Paul Rycault - Secretary to the Ambassador and Consul in Smyrna. Thomas Dallam: organ maker William Biddulph: Protestant chaplain in Aleppo In 1653 the Commonwealth appointed one Richard Lawrence as agent 1668-1671: Sir George Etherege, restoration rake and writer, secretary to Daniel Harvey

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