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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 .
Ambassadors from Great Britain
Ambassadors from the United Kingdom
1799-1803:
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
1803 (Jan-May):
Alexander Straton (minister plenipotentiary)
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1803-1804:
William Drummond
1804-1807:
Charles Arbuthnot
1807-1809 Sir
Arthur Paget
[4]
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1827-1832: (British Embassy was withdrawn following the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
References
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^ Alfred C. Wood, A History of the Levant Company , Oxford: Oxford UP, 1935, pp. 183-184.
^ J. 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.
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