List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France
| Ambassador of the United Kingdom to France L'Ambassadeur britannique en France |
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| Style | His Excellency |
| Residence | Paris |
| Appointer | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Inaugural holder | The Marquess Cornwallis First Ambassador of the United Kingdom to France, 1801 |
| Website | UK Embassy in France |
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to France (French: L'Ambassadeur britannique en France) is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in France, and is the head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Paris. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to France.
Traditionally, the Embassy to France has been the most prestigious posting in the British foreign service, although in past centuries diplomatic representation was often lacking due to wars between the two countries.
For the period before the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, see List of ambassadors from the Kingdom of England to France (up to 1707) and List of ambassadors of Great Britain to France (from 1707 to 1800).
As of 2012, the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to France is His Excellency Sir Peter Ricketts.
[edit] British Ambassadors and Ministers to France
- There was no representation of Great Britain or the United Kingdom in France from 1792 to 1801, due to the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1801–1802: The Marquess Cornwallis, Plenipotentiary
- 1802–1803: The Lord Whitworth[1]
- No representation from 1803 to 1814, due to the Napoleonic Wars
- 1806: Francis Seymour-Conway, Earl of Yarmouth and James Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale, Plenipotentiaries [1]
- 1814–1815: The Duke of Wellington[1]
- 1815–1824: Sir Charles Stuart[1]
- 1824–1828: The Viscount Granville [1]
- 1828–1830: The Lord Stuart de Rothesay [1]
- 1830–1835: The Viscount Granville[1]
- 1835: The Lord Cowley[1]
- 1835–1841: The Earl Granville[1]
- 1841–1846: The Lord Cowley[1]
- 1846–1852: The Marquess of Normanby[1]
- 1852–1867: The Earl Cowley[1]
- 1867–1887: The Viscount Lyons
- 1887–1891: The Earl of Lytton
- 1891–1896: The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
- 1896–1905: Sir Edmund Monson[2]
- 1905–1918: Sir Francis Bertie
- 1918–1920: The Earl of Derby
- 1920–1922: The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
- 1922–1928: The Marquess of Crewe
- 1928–1934: Sir William Tyrrell
- 1934–1937: Sir George Clerk
- 1937–1939: Sir Eric Phipps
- 1939–1940: Sir Ronald Campbell
- No representation from 1940 to 1944, due to the German occupation of France during the Second World War
- 1944–1948: Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, (previously Representative to the Free French in Algiers from 1943)
- 1948–1954: Sir Oliver Harvey
- 1954–1960: Sir Gladwyn Jebb
- 1960: Sir Frederic Salusbury (Died in office)
- 1960–1965: Sir Pierson Dixon
- 1965–1968: Sir Patrick Reilly
- 1968–1972: Sir Christopher Soames
- 1972–1975: Sir Edward Tomkins
- 1975–1979: Sir Nicholas Henderson
- 1979–1982: Sir Reginald Hibbert
- 1982–1987: Sir John Fretwell
- 1987–1993: Sir Ewen Fergusson
- 1993–1996: Sir Christopher Mallaby
- 1996–2001: Sir Michael Jay
- 2001–2007: Sir John Holmes
- 2007–2012: Sir Peter Westmacott
- 2012 to date: Sir Peter Ricketts
