List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to the Netherlands

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

Since the formation in 1997 of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is located in The Hague, the British Ambassador to the Netherlands has also been the UK's Permanent Representative to the OPCW, assisted by a Chemical Weapons team at the Embassy.[1]

List of heads of mission

Envoys to the Prince of Orange

Ambassadors to the United Provinces

No representation due to the Third Anglo-Dutch War 1672–1674[2]

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the United Provinces

Ambassadors to the United Provinces

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the United Provinces

No representation due to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War 1780–1784[3]

Diplomatic Relations suspended 1795–1802

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Batavian Republic

Diplomatic Relations suspended 1803–1813

Ambassadors to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands

Under the Treaty of Vienna in 1815, the northern and southern Netherlands were united into the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was dissolved by the secession of the Southern Netherlands in the Belgian Revolution

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands

Ambassadors to the Netherlands

See also

References

  1. Chemical Weapons team – British Embassy The Hague
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Gary M. Bell, A handlist of British diplomatic representatives 1509-1688 (Royal Historical Society, Guides and handbooks, 16, 1990).
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)
  4. London Gazette 5528
  5. William Carr, ‘Trevor, Robert Hampden-, first Viscount Hampden (1706–1783)’, rev. Martyn J. Powell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008) , accessed 10 Aug 2008.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 J. Haydn, Book of Dignities, 79
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Previous ambassadors to the Netherlands". Archived from the original on 22 March 2009. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
  9. "NICHOLS, Sir Philip Bouverie Bowyer". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
  10. "BUTLER, Sir Nevile Montagu". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
  11. "GARRAN, Sir (Isham) Peter". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
  12. Sir Richard Sykes was murdered by IRA gunmen whilst ambassador
  13. The London Gazette: no. 49583. p. 4. 31 December 1983. Retrieved 2013-01-7.

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