• Source: 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 Sutton
      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 Colebrooke
      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)
      1803-1804: William Drummond
      1804-1807: Charles Arbuthnot
      1807-1809 Sir Arthur Paget
      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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