List of British ambassadors in Austria

This is a list of the British envoys and ambassadors in Austria .

Heads of mission

British ambassadors in the Habsburg Monarchy (until 1804)

Envoy from the Kingdom of Great Britain only (from 1707 ).

1707: Establishment of diplomatic relations

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• 1727–1730: James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave
• 1730-1748: Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
• 1748–1756: Robert Murray Keith
• 1756-1764: John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford

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• 1799-1801: Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto

British ambassador to the Austrian monarchy

• 1801-1806: Sir Arthur Paget
• 1806-1807: Robert Adair
• 1807-1807: George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke

1807 to 1813: Disruption of relations as a result of the Napoleonic Wars

• 1813–1814: George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
• 1814–1823: Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
• 1823-1831: Sir Henry Wellesley
• 1831-1841: Sir Frederick Lamb
• 1841-1846: Sir Robert Gordon
• 1846-1850: John Ponsonby
• 1851–1855: John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
• 1855-1858: Sir George Hamilton Seymour
• 1858-1860: Lord Augustus Loftus
• 1860–1867: John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield

British ambassador to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy

Sir Maurice de Bunsen (1909)

• 1867–1871: John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield
• 1871–1877: Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet
• 1877-1884: Sir Henry Elliot
• 1884-1893: Sir Augustus Paget
• 1893–1897: Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet
• 1897–1900: Sir Horace Rumbold
• 1900–1905: Sir Francis Plunkett
• 1905–1908: Sir Edward Goschen
• 1908-1913: Sir Fairfax Cartwright
• 1913–1914: Sir Maurice de Bunsen

1914: Diplomatic relations are broken off as a result of the First World War

British Ambassador to the Republic of Austria (since 1919)

1919: Establishment of diplomatic relations

• 1919–1920: Sir Francis Lindley
• 1920–1921: Sir Francis Lindley
• 1921–1928: Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston
• 1928-1933: Sir Eric Phipps
• 1933-1937: Sir Walford Selby
• 1937–1938: Michael Palairet

1938 to 1945: Break in relations as a result of the German annexation of Austria

• 1946–1948: Sir Henry Mack
• 1948–1949: Sir Bertrand Jerram
• 1949–1954: Sir Harold Caccia
• 1954–1958: Sir Geoffrey Wallinger
• 1958–1961: Sir James Bowker
• 1961-1965: Sir Malcolm Henderson
• 1965-1967: Sir John Pilcher
• 1967–1970: Sir Anthony Rumbold, Bt.
• 1970-1972: Sir Peter Wilkinson
• 1972-1976: Sir Denis Laskey
• 1976-1979: Hugh Travers Morgan
• 1979-1982: Donald Gordon
• 1982–1986: Michael Alexander
• 1986-1989: Robert O'Neill
• 1989-1992: Brian Crowe
• 1992-1996: Terence Wood
• 1996-2000: Sir Anthony Figgis
• 2000-2003: Antony Ford
• 2003-2007: John Macgregor
• 2007-2012: Simon Smith
• 2012–2016: Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque
• from 2016: Leigh Turner

See also

• List of Austrian ambassadors in the United Kingdom

Web links

• British Embassy in Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} orf.at - New British Ambassador in Vienna . Article dated August 21, 2016, accessed August 21, 2016.