List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Hanover

The following is a list of Diplomats from the United Kingdom (and predecessors) to the Electorate and then Kingdom of Hanover:

Heads of Mission

To the Duke of Brunswick-Lauenberg

1689–1692: Sir William Dutton Colt^[1] also to Hesse-Cassel and Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

To the Elector of Hanover and others

The same diplomat was commonly accredited to the Elector, to the Duke of Celle and The Electress Sophia, often also to the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

• 1692–1693: Sir William Dutton Colt^[1]
• 1693–1703: James Cressett Envoy Extraordinary^[2][3]
  • 1701: Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun and Gregory King the Lancaster Herald Special Mission^[2]
• 1702–1703: Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea^[2]
• 1703–1705: Edmund Poley^[2]
• 1705–1709: Brigadier Emanuel Scrope Howe^[2]
  • 1706: Charles Montagu, Baron Halifax, Lionel Sackville, Earl of Dorset, John Vanbrugh, Joseph Addison, and Peter Falaiseau Special Mission^[2]
  • 1708: Maj.-Gen. Francis Palmes Special Mission^[2]
• 1709–1714: Isaac d'Alais Chargé d'affaires 1709-1711 then Secretary^[2]
  • 1710 and 1711: Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers Special Missions^[2]
  • 1712 and 1714: Thomas Harley Special Missions^[2]
• 1714: Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon^[3] Envoy Extraordinary^[2]
• 1714–1837: No mission, because the Elector (later King) of Hanover was also King of Great Britain.

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover

• 1838–1856: Hon. John Duncan Blight^[4][5][6][7]
• 1857-1858: Sir John Crampton^[8]
• 1858: George John Robert Gordon^[9]
• 1856-1866: Henry Francis Howard^[10]
• 1866: Sir Charles Lennox Wyke^[11]

References

1. J. D. Davies, ‘Colt, Sir William Dutton (bap. 1646, d. 1693)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 , accessed 26 April 2009
2. D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)
3. The National Archives, class SP 81/159-164.
4. J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 79.
5. S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934), 64.
6. The London Gazette: no. 19608. p. 912. 17 April 1838. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
7. http://www.ghil.ac.uk/publications/british_envoys_to_germany/british_missions_to_germany.html
8. The London Gazette: no. 21974. p. 866. 3 March 1857. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
9. The London Gazette: no. 22121. p. 1687. 2 April 1858. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
10. The London Gazette: no. 22326. p. 4077. 15 November 1859. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
11. The London Gazette: no. 23061. p. 322. 19 January 1866. Retrieved 28 August 2014.