List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Austria

The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Austria is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Austria, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Austria. His official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Austria.

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 1707 to 1800 see List of ambassadors of Great Britain to the Holy Roman Emperor.

List of heads of mission

Envoys-Extraordinary and Ministers-Plentipotentiary to the Holy Roman Emperor

• 1801: Gilbert, Lord Minto
• 1801-1806: Sir Arthur Paget
  •  : The Earl of Harrington (Extraordinary Mission)
• 1806-1807: Robert Adair

Ambassadors to the Austrian Emperor

• The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery 1807
• none due to Napoleonic Wars (1807–1813)
  • Benjamin Bathurst (Extraordinary Mission 1809)
• The Earl of Aberdeen (1813–1814)
• The Lord Stewart of Stewart's Court (1814–1823)
• Sir Henry Wellesley, later Lord Cowley (1823–1831)
• Sir Frederick Lamb, later Lord Beauvale (1831–1841)
• Sir Robert Gordon (1841–1846)
• The Viscount Ponsonby (1846–1850)
• The Earl of Westmorland (1851–1855)
• Sir George Hamilton Seymour (1855–1858)
• Lord Augustus Loftus (1858–1860)
• The Lord Bloomfield (1860–1867)

Ambassadors to Austria-Hungary

• The Lord Bloomfield (1867–1871)
• Sir Andrew Buchanan (1871–1878)
• Sir Henry Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1878–1884)
• Sir Augustus Paget (1884–1893)
• Sir Edmund Monson (1893–1896)
• Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt. (1896–1900)
• Sir Francis Richard Plunkett (1900–1905)
• Sir Edward Goschen (1905–1908)
• Sir Fairfax Cartwright (1908–1913)
• Sir Maurice de Bunsen (1913–1914)
• no representation (1914–1919), due to First World War)

High Commissioner to Austria

• Sir Francis Lindley (1919–1920)

Ambassadors to Austria

• Sir Francis Lindley (1920–1921)
• Hon. Aretas Akers-Douglas (1921–1928)
• Sir Eric Phipps (1928–1933)
• Sir Walford Harmood Montague Selby (1933–1937) ru:Селби, Валфорд
• Charles Michael Palairet (1937–1938) ru:Паларет, Чарльз Майкл
• no representation (1938–1945, due to Anschluss and Second World War)

Political Representative in Austria

• Henry William Bradshaw (1945–1946)

Ambassadors to Austria

• Henry William Bradshaw (1946–1948)
• Sir Bertrand Jerram (1948–1949)
• Sir Harold Anthony Caccia (1949–1954)
• Sir Geoffrey Arnold Wallinger (1954–1958)
• Sir Reginald James Bowker (1958–1961)
• Sir Malcolm Sibourne Henderson (1961–1965)
• Sir John Pilcher (1965–1967)
• Sir Anthony Rumbold, Bt. (1967–1970)
• Sir Peter Allix Wilkinson (1970–1972)
• Denis Seward Laskey (1972–1976)
• Hugh Travers Morgan (1976–1979)
• Donald McDonald Gordon (1979–1982)
• Michael Alexander (1982–1986)
• Robert James O'Neill (1986–1989)
• Brian Lee Crowe (1989–1992)
• Terence Courtney Wood (1992–1996)
• Anthony St. Johns Figgis (1996–2000)
• Antony Ford (2000–2003)
• John Malcolm Macgregor (2003–2007)
• Simon Smith (2007- )

References

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• J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851),

External links

• British Ambassador to Austria