List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Denmark

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

Until 1947, the British representative in Denmark held the rank of "Minister", and the Danish representative in the UK the corresponding rank of "Gesandt". In 1947, Denmark and the United Kingdom upgraded their diplomatic representations to each other and both heads of mission have since held the rank of "Ambassador".

List of Heads of Mission

England

*1655: Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester

*1671: Hon. Charles Bertie
*1671–1672: Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond

*c. 1692 Robert Molesworth
*1702-1707 James Vernon the Younger (d. 1756), son of James Vernon, Secretary of State

cotland

*1491: James Ogilvy, 1st Lord Ogilvy of Airlie

*1596: James Ogilvy, 5th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie

Great Britain

*1706-1715 Daniel Pulteney
*1715-1721: Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont
*1721-1729: John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

*1730–1768: Walter Titley
*1768–1771: Robert Gunning
*1771–1772: Robert Murray Keith (the younger) (son of Robert Murray Keith) [http://www.electricscotland.com/history/nation/keith.htm]
*1772–1779: Ralph Woodford
*1779–1782: Morton Eden
*1782–1789: Hugh Elliot

*1791–1795: Daniel Hailes
*1795–1800: Lord Robert FitzGerald
*1800–"1801": Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth

United Kingdom

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

*"1801"–1803: Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth
*1803–1804: James Craufurd:*Robert Liston (special mission)
*1804–1805: Benjamin Garlike
*1805–1807: Edward Thornton (first time)
*1807: Brooke Taylor
*1807–1812: Francis James Jackson:*1808: Anthony Merry (special mission)
*1812–1813: Edward Thornton (second time)
*1813–1814: Alexander Hope
*1814–1824: Augustus Foster
*1824–1853: Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn:*1852-1853: Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield (attaché)

*1858: Sir Henry Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
*1859-1866: Augustus Paget

*1863: John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse

*1866-1869: Hugh MacDonell

*1881-1884: Hon. Hussey Vivian

*1888-1893: Hugh MacDonell
*1893-1898: Sir Charles Stewart Scott
*1898–1900: Edmund Fane
*1900–1905: Edward Goschen
*1910–1912: Sir William Conyngham Greene
*1913–1916: Sir Henry Lowther
*1916–1918: Ralph Spencer Paget
*1919–1921: Sir Charles Marling
*1921–1926: Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville
*1928–1933: Thomas Hohler
*1933–1935: Hugh Gurney
*1935–1939: Hon. Sir Patrick Ramsay
*1939–1940: Charles Howard Smith (expelled with his staff by the Germans on 9 April 1940)

*1945–"1947": Sir Alec Randall

Ambassadors

*"1947"–1952: Sir Alec Randall
*1952–1956: Sir Eric Berthoud
*1956–1960: Sir Roderick Barclay
*1960–1962: Sir William Montagu-Pollock, Bt.
*1962–1966: Sir John Henniker-Major
*1966–1969: Oliver Wright
*1969–1971: Sir Murray MacLehose
*1971–1976: Sir Andrew Stark
*1976–1983: Dame Anne Warburton
*1983–1986: Sir James Mellon
*1986–1988: Peter Unwin
*1989–1993: Nigel Williams
*1993–1996: Hugh James Arbuthnott
*1996-1999: Andrew P. F. Bache
*1999–2003: Philip Astley
*2003–2006: Sir Nicholas Browne
*2006–2008: David Frost
*2008– : Nicholas Archer

External links

* [http://ukindenmark.fco.gov.uk/en/our-offices-in-denmark/our-ambassador/ British Ambassador to Denmark]