List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Sweden

The British Embassy in Stockholm

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

Earlier representation

John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville

For ambassadors from the Court of St. James's to Sweden before the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, see List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to Sweden (up to 1707) and List of Ambassadors of Great Britain to Sweden (from 1707 to 1800).

List of heads of mission

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Stockholm

• 1800–1801: Diplomatic relations severed due to Second League of Armed Neutrality
• 1802–1804: Charles Arbuthnot^[1]
• 1804–1807: Hon. Henry Pierrepont^[2]
• 1807: Alexander Straton^[3]
  • 1807: Hon. Henry Pierrepont special mission^[1]
• 1807–1808: Edward Thornton^[1]
• 1808–1809: Anthony Merry^[1]
• 1810–1812: Diplomatic relations severed due to Sweden's alliance with France
  • 1811: Edward Thornton special mission^[1]
• 1812–1817: Edward Thornton^[1]
• 1817–1820: Viscount Strangford^[1]
• 1820–1823: William Vesey-FitzGerald^[4]
• 1823–1832: Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield^[1] (created a baron in 1825)
• 1832–1833: Lord Howard de Walden^[5]
• 1833–1835: Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe^[1]
• 1835–1838: Hon. John Duncan Bligh ^[6]
• 1838–1850: Sir Thomas Cartwright^[1]
  • 1850: George John Robert Gordon, Chargé d'affaires^[1]
• 1851–1853: Sir Edmund Lyons^[7]

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sweden and Norway

• 1854–1859: Arthur Magenis^[8]
• 1859–1872: George Jerningham^[9]
• 1872–1881: Hon. Edward Erskine
• 1881–1884: Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt
• 1884–1888: Edwin Corbett
• 1888–1893: Sir Francis Plunkett
• 1893–1896: Sir Spenser St. John
• 1896–1901: Hon. Sir Francis Pakenham
• 1902–1904: Sir William Barrington^[10]
• 1904–1905: Rennell Rodd

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sweden

• 1905–1908: Sir Rennell Rodd
• 1908–1912: Cecil Spring-Rice
• 1913–1918: Esme Howard
• 1919–1924: Colville Barclay
• 1924–1927: Arthur Grant Duff
• 1928–1930: Sir Tudor Vaughan
• 1931–1934: Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
• 1935–1937: Michael Palairet
• 1938–1939: Sir Edmund Monson, 3rd Baronet^[11][12]
• 1939–1945: Sir Victor Mallet^[13][14]
• 1945–1948: Sir Bertrand Jerram^[15]

Ambassadors to Sweden

• 1948–1951: Sir Harold Farquhar
• 1951–1954: Sir Roger Stevens
• 1954–1960: Hon. Sir Robert Hankey
• 1960–1963: Sir John Coulson
• 1963–1966: Sir Moore Crosthwaite
• 1966–1971: Sir Archibald Ross^[16]
• 1971–1974: Sir Guy Millard^[17]
• 1974–1977: Sir Sam Falle
• 1977–1980: Sir Jeffrey Petersen
• 1980–1984: Sir Donald Murray^[18][19]
• 1984–1987: Sir Richard Parsons^[20]
• 1987–1991: Sir John Ure
• 1999–2003: John Grant CMG (later Sir John Grant KCMG)
• 2003–2006: Anthony Cary
• 2006–2011: Andrew Jonathan Mitchell
• 2011–2015: Paul Johnston^[21]
• 2015–present: David Cairns^[22]

External links

• UK and Sweden, gov.uk

References

1. J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 83-4
2. The London Gazette: no. 15642. p. 1553. 10 November 1803.
3. The London Gazette: no. 15992. p. 62. 17 January 1807.
4. The London Gazette: no. 17622. p. 1532. 8 August 1820.
5. The London Gazette: no. 18981. p. 2188. 2 October 1832.
6. The London Gazette: no. 19320. p. 1997. 30 October 1835. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
7. The London Gazette: no. 21175. p. 209. 28 January 1851.
8. The London Gazette: no. 21556. p. 1599. 26 May 1854.
9. The London Gazette: no. 22326. p. 4077. 15 November 1859.
10. The London Gazette: no. 27482. p. 6493. 14 October 1902. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
11. The London Gazette: no. 34496. p. 2006. 25 March 1938.
12. Frederick Martin, Sir John Scott Keltie, Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick, Mortimer Epstein, Sigfrid Henry Steinberg, John Paxton, The Statesman's year-book, St. Martin's Press, 1939 p.1354
13. Times on-line archive
14. http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/988/861/88449148w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS170225843&dyn=9!xrn_12_0_CS170225843&hst_1?sw_aep=wornews Times on-line archive
15. The London Gazette: no. 37278. p. 4707. 21 September 1945.
16. The London Gazette: no. 44200. p. 13615. 16 December 1966.
17. The London Gazette: no. 45588. p. 1282. 1 February 1972.
18. "MURRAY, Sir Donald (Frederick)". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
19. The London Gazette: no. 48325. p. 13693. 1 October 1980. Retrieved 2013-01-7.
20. "PARSONS, Sir Richard (Edmund Clement Fownes)". Who's Who 2008. A & C Black. 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
21. Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Sweden, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 8 October 2010
22. David Cairns, British Ambassador to Sweden, gov.uk (retrieved 15 September 2015)