Ambasciatore del Regno Unito in Belgio

L'Ambasciatore del Regno Unito in Belgio è il primo rappresentante diplomatico Regno Unito in Belgio e responsabile della missione diplomatica del Regno Unito in Belgio. Il titolo ufficiale è l'ambasciatore di Sua Maestà Britannica nel Regno del Belgio.

Capi missione

Inviati straordinari ai governatori generali dei Paesi Bassi spagnoli

• 1600–1601: Thomas Edmondes
• 1605-1609: Thomas Edmondes
• 1620: Sir Edward Conway
• 1665: Sir William Temple
• 1671: Sir Robert Southwell Ambassador^[1]
• 1689–1692: John Andrew Eckhart Resident^[2]
• 1692–1696: Robert Wolseley^[2]
• 1696–1699: Richard Hill^[2]
• 1699–1701: Mr Marmande^[2]

Inviati straordinari a Bruxelles

• 1706–1707: George Stepney^[2]
• 1707–1712: John Lawes^[2]
• 1707–1711: William Cadogan^[2]

Inviati alla corte imperiale a Bruxelles

• 1711–1713: Charles Boyle, IV conte di Orrery^[2]
• 1712–1715: John Lawes^[2]
• 1714–1715: William Cadogan^[2]
• 1715–1724: William Lethes^[2]
• 1722–1745: Robert Daniel^[2]
• 1742–1744: Onslow Burrish^[2]
• 1752–1757: Solomon Dayrolles^[2]
• 1757–1763: Relazioni diplomatiche interrotte a causa della Guerra dei sette anni^[2]
• 1763–1765: Sir James Porter^[2][3]
• 1765–1777: William Gordon^[3]
• 1777–1783: Alleyne Fitzherbert^[3]
• 1783–1792: George Byng, IV visconte Torrington^[3]
  • 1789–1792: Francis Wilson^[4]
• 1792–1794: Thomas Bruce, VII conte di Elgin^[3]

Inviato Straordinario e Ministro Plenipotenziario

• 1830: John Ponsonby, I visconte Ponsonby^[5]
• 1831–1835: Robert Adair^[5]
  • 1835–1836: Henry Bulwer, I barone Dalling e Bulwer^[5]
• 1836–1845: George Hamilton Seymour^[5]
  • 1845–1846: Thomas Waller, Chargé d'Affaires^[5]
• 1846–1868: Charles Ellis, VI barone Howard de Walden
• 1868–1883: John Savile, I barone Savile^[6]
• 1883–1884: Edward Malet^[7]
• 1884–1892: Hussey Vivian, III barone Vivian^[8]
• 1892-1893: Edmund Monson^[9]
• 1900–1906: Sir Constantine Phipps
• 1906–1911: Arthur Henry Hardinge
• 1911–1919: Sir Francis Hyde Villiers

Ambasciatori

• 1919–1920: Sir Francis Hyde Villiers
• 1920–1928: Sir George Grahame
• 1928–1933: Granville Leveson-Gower, III conte Granville
• 1933–1934: Sir George Clerk
• 1934–1937: Sir Esmond Ovey
• 1937–1939: Sir Robert Clive
• 1939–1944: Sir Lancelot Oliphant
• 1944–1947: Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen^[10]
• 1947–1950: Sir George Rendel
• 1950–1951: Sir John Le Rougetel
• 1951–1955: Sir Christopher Warner
• 1955–1960: Sir George Labouchere
• 1960–1963: Sir John Nicholls
• 1963–1969: Sir Roderick Barclay
• 1969–1974: Sir John Beith
• 1974–1978: Sir David Muirhead
• 1979–1981: Sir Peter Wakefield
• 1982–1985: Sir Edward Jackson
• 1985–1989: Sir Peter Petrie
• 1989–1992: Robert James O'Neill
• 1992–1996: Sir John Gray
• 1996–2001: David Colvin
• 2001–2003: Gavin Hewitt
• 2003–2007: Richard Kinchen
• 2007–2010: Rachel Aron
• 2010–2014: Jonathan Brenton
• 2014–2019: Alison Rose
• 2019–oggi: Martin Shearman

Note

1. Toby Barnard, ‘Southwell, Sir Robert (1635–1702)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [1], accessed 10 aprile 2009
2. D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)
3. J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 77-78.
4. S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
5. J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 76.
6. (EN) The London Gazette (PDF), n. 23434, 23 October 1868, p. 5555. URL consultato il 14 luglio 2009.
7. (EN) The London Gazette (PDF), n. 25268, 11 September 1883, p. 4449. URL consultato il 14 luglio 2009.
8. (EN) The London Gazette (PDF), n. 25425, 23 December 1884, p. 5919. URL consultato il 14 luglio 2009.
9. (EN) The London Gazette (PDF), n. 26258, 16 February 1892, p. 4. URL consultato il 24 settembre 2010.
10. (EN) The London Gazette (PDF), n. 36811, 24 November 1944, p. 5393. URL consultato il 25 ottobre 2009.

Collegamenti esterni

• UK and Belgium, su gov.uk.