List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France

The British Ambassador to France is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in France, and is the head of Britain's diplomatic mission in Paris. 
List of ambassadors
 English ambassadors and Ministers to France 

 1446: Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham
 1505: Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester
 1514–1515: Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
 1518–1520: Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
 1520-1525: Richard Wingfield
 1529-?: Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
 Periods in 1540s and 1550s: Nicholas Wotton
 1559–1564: Nicholas Throckmorton
 1564–1566: Thomas Smith
 1566: Thomas Hoby 
 1566–1570: Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys
 1570–1573: Francis Walsingham
 1573–1576: Valentine Dale
 1576–1579: Amias Paulet
 1579–1583: Henry Cobham (Henry Brooke)
 1583–1590: Edward Stafford
 1591–1592: Henry UntonM. Greengrass, ‘Edmondes, Sir Thomas (d. 1639)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 , accessed 12 Jan 2009.
 1592–1596: Thomas Edmondes Chargé d'affaires
 1596–1597: Anthony Mildmay
 1597–1599: Thomas Edmondes Chargé d'affaires
 1599–1600: Henry Neville
 1601 Thomas Edmondes, Special Ambassador
 1602–1606: Thomas Parry
 1604: James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle
 1604–1605: Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox
 1605–1609: George Carew Resident ambassador
 1606: William Godolphin
 1609–1610: William Beecher Chargé d'Affaires
 1610–1617: Thomas Edmondes Resident Ambassador J. Palmer, A Biographical History of England (1824), 86.
 1610: Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton
 1616: James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle
 1617–1619: William Beecher Agent (Chargé d'Affaires)
 1619–1624: Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Resident Ambassador (but not Sept 1621 to June 1622)
 1621–1622: James Hay, Viscount Doncaster
 1624–1625: Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland
 1624–1625: James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle
 1624–1625: George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich Agent
 1625: George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
 1625–1627: Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh appointed Resident Ambassador, but did not go
 1625: Thomas Lorkin Agent
 1625–1626: Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland and Dudley Carleton
 1626–1627: William Lewis Agent
 1626: Dudley Carleton, Lord Carleton
 1626: Walter Montagu
 1626–1627: John Hawkins
 1627–1628: Walter Montagu
 1629–1630: Thomas Edmonds, Special mission
 1629–1640: Réné Augier Agent (with de Vic)
 1630–1636: Henry de Vic Agent or Chargé d'affaires when there was no ambassadorGary M. Bell, A handlist of British diplomatic representatives 1509–1688 (Royal Historical Society, Guides and handbooks, 16, 1990).
 1630–1631: Walter Montagu Ambassador (3 special missions)
 1631–1632: Isaac Wake
 1631–1633: Jerome Weston Special Mission
 1635–1639: John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore Ambassador Ordinary
 1636–1641: Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester Ambassador Extraordinary
 1639–1640: Thomas Windebank
 1641–1650: Richard Browne Agent (for Charles I, then representing the exiled Charles II)
 1642–1643: William Kerr, 3rd Earl of Lothian (for Scots Privy Council and Charles I)
 1643–1644: George Goring, Lord Goring (for Charles I)
 1644–1651: Réné Augier Agent; then Resident Ambassador (for Parliament)
 1651–1655: Réné Petit Agent
 1655–1656: Réné Augier Agent
 1656–1659: William Lockhart of Lee Ambassador
 1658: Thomas Belasyse, Viscount Fauconberg
 1660: William Crofts, 1st Baron Crofts Ambassador Extraordinary
 1660–1661: Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans Ambassador Extraordinary
 1661: Samuel Tuke Ambassador Extraordinary
 1661-?: William Crofts, 1st Baron Crofts and Laurence Hyde Special Ambassadors
 1662: Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans Ambassador Extraordinary
 1662–1663: Ralph Montagu Agent?
 1662–1666: Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles Ambassador Extraordinary
 1666–1668: Henry Jermyn, Earl of St Albans
 1668: John Trevor
 1669–1672: Ralph Montagu
 1669 and 1670: Charles Sackville, Baron Buckhurst
 1670: George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
 1671: John Belasyse, Baron Belasyse
 1671 and 1672: Sidney Godolphin
 1672–1677: William Perwich Agent (and Chargé d'affaires when no ambassador)
 1672: Henry Savile, Ambassador
 1672: Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory
 1672–1673: Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
 1673: Edward Spragge
 1673–1675: William Lockhart of Lee
 1673: Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, 'made diplomatic contact in France, Apr. 1673, on his way to the Emperor'
 1674: Bevil Skelton Secret Mission
 1675–1676: John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton Ambassador Extraordinary
 1676–1678: Ralph Montagu Ambassador Extraordinary
 1676–1679: John Brisbane Agent; and then Chargé d'affaires
 1677: Louis Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham Special Ambassador
 1678–1679: Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland Ambassador Extraordinary
 1679–1682: Henry Savile, Envoy Extraordinary
 1682–1685: Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston, Envoy Extraordinary
 1682: Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, Ambassador Extraordinary'
 1683: George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton Special Ambassador
 1683–1684: James Hamilton, Earl of Arran Ambassador Extraordinary
 1685: John Churchill, Baron Churchill Ambassador Extraordinary
 1685–1686: William Trumbull Ambassador Extraordinary
 1686–1688: Bevil Skelton Envoy Extraordinary
 1688–1689: Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave Envoy Extraordinary

Ambassadors Extraordinary, from 1689
 No representation 1689–1697 due to the Nine Years' War
 1697–1698: The Earl of PortlandD. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)
 1698–1699: The Earl of Jersey
 1699–1701: The Earl of Manchester
 No representation from 1701 to 1712, due to the War of the Spanish Succession
Ambassadors and ministers of Great Britain to France

 1709: Charles Townshend, Viscount Townshend Plenipotentiary
 1712: The Duke of Hamilton (never took office, being killed in a celebrated duel before setting off)
 1712–1715: Matthew Prior, Plenipotentiary 
 1712–1713: The Duke of Shrewsbury 
 1714–1720: The Earl of Stair, Minister-Plenipotentiary 1714–1715; Envoy Extraordinary 1715; then Ambassador
 1720–1721: Sir Robert Sutton, Ambassador 
 1721–1724: Sir Luke Schaub 
 1724–1730: The Lord Walpole of Wolterton Envoy Extraordinary 1724; Ambassador Extraordinary 1724–1727; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 1727–1730
 1730–1740: The Earl Waldegrave 
 1740–1744: Anthony Thompson, Chargé d'Affaires 
 no representation 1744–1748 due to the War of the Austrian Succession
 1749–1754: The Earl of Albemarle 
 no representation 1754–1762 due to the Seven Years' War
 1761: Hans Stanley, Minister: special mission to negotiate peace
 1762–1763: The Duke of Bedford
 1763–1765: The Earl of Hertford 
 1765–1766: The Duke of Richmond
 1766–1768: The Earl of Rochford 
 1768–1772: The Earl Harcourt
 1772–1778: The Viscount Stormont
 no representation 1778–1782 due to American Revolutionary War
 1782: Thomas Grenville, Minister 
 1782–1783: Alleyne FitzHerbert, Minister Plenipotentiary 
 1783–1784: The Duke of Manchester
 1784–1789: John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
 1789–1790: Embassy Secretary Lord Robert Stephen FitzGerald (1765–1833), son of James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, acted as Minister Plenipotentiary from 8 August 1789 to 20 June 1790
 1790–1792: Earl Gower, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 
 No representation after 1792, due to the French Revolutionary Wars. Diplomatic relations were severed until 1801.
 1797: James Harris, Baron Malmesbury, Plenipotentiary
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 WhitworthS. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789–1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
No representation from 1803 to 1814, due to the Napoleonic Wars
1806: Francis Seymour-Conway, Earl of Yarmouth and James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, Plenipotentiaries 
1814–1815: The Duke of Wellington
1815–1824: Sir Charles Stuart
1824–1828: The Viscount Granville
1828–1830: The Lord Stuart de Rothesay
1830–1835: The Viscount Granville
1835: The Lord Cowley
1835–1841: The Earl Granville
1841–1846: The Lord Cowley
1846–1852: The Marquess of Normanby
1852–1867: The Earl Cowley
1867–1887: The Viscount Lyons
1887–1891: The Earl of Lytton
1891–1896: The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
1896–1905: Sir Edmund Monson
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 Hugh 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
1960–1965: 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
2012–2015: Sir Peter Ricketts
2016–2016: Sir Julian King
2016–2021: Edward Llewellyn, Baron Llewellyn of Steep OBE

2021–: Dame Menna Rawlings

Related pages
 List of ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom since 1803

References

List of Ambassadors to France since 1814, British Embassy, France

Other websites
UK and France, gov.uk

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