Misplaced Pages

Below is an incomplete list of diplomats from the United Kingdom to Saxony, specifically Heads of Missions.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

Heads of Missions

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

Elector of Saxony

• 1693: Sir William Dutton Colt Two Special Missions
• 1693–1698: George Stepney Three Special Missions: 1693–1694 as Commissary and Deputy; 1695 as Minister; 1698 as Envoy Extraordinary

Elector of Saxony and King of Poland

1698 to 1763: The Elector of Saxony was usually also King of Poland: no separate mission to Saxony: see List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Poland

Elector of Saxony

• 1764–1768: Philip Stanhope
• 1769–1771: Robert Murray Keith (the younger)
• 1771–1775: John Osborne
• 1775–1783: Sir John Stepney, Bt
  • 1782: Viscount Dalrymple (did not go)
• 1783–1791: Morton Eden
• 1791–1803: Hugh Elliot
• 1803–1806: Henry Williams-Wynn

1806–1816: No diplomatic relations

Kingdom of Saxony

• 1806–1816: Henry Williams-Wynn
• 1816–1824: John Morier
• 1824–1828: George Chad
• 1828–1832: Edward Ward
• 1832–1858: Hon. Francis Forbes
• 1858–1859: Augustus Paget
• 1859–1866: Hon. Charles Murray
• 1866–1867: John Lumley
• 1867–1874: Joseph Hume Burnley
• 1873–1897: George Strachey
• 1897–1901: Sir Alexander Condie Stephen
• 1901–1907: Hugh Gough, 3rd Viscount Gough
• 1907–1909: Mansfeldt Findlay
• 1909–1914: Arthur Grant Duff

References

1. ^ D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)
2. "No. 10405". The London Gazette. 31 March 1764. p. 3.
3. ^ Haydn, Joseph – The Book of Dignities, 1851
4. "No. 15595". The London Gazette. 21 June 1803. p. 740.
5. "No. 18067". The London Gazette. 2 October 1824. p. 1613.
6. "No. 18441". The London Gazette. 12 February 1828. p. 285.
7. "No. 18993". The London Gazette. 9 November 1832. p. 2470.
8. "No. 22209". The London Gazette. 14 December 1858. p. 5415.
9. "No. 22271". The London Gazette. 7 June 1859. p. 5415.
10. "No. 23129". The London Gazette. 22 June 1866. p. 3589.
11. "No. 27365". The London Gazette. 13 October 1901. p. 6710.

• Lists of ambassadors of the United Kingdom
• Ambassadors to Saxony
• History of Saxony