# 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* 1827-1832: (British Embassy was withdrawn following the Battle of Navarino), during this period Sir Robert Gordon was envoy extraordinary and John Hobart Caradoc led a special mission to Greece and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