| Appointed / Accredited
|
Surname
|
Remarks
|
appointed during the reign of
|
accredited at
|
Leave post
|
| 1709
|
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
Anne
|
Louis XIV
|
|
| 1712
|
James Douglas-Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton
|
Before taking office he took part in a fatal duel.
|
|
| 1712
|
Matthew Prior
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
1715
|
| 1712
|
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury
|
|
1713
|
| 1714
|
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire from 1715 ambassador
|
George I.
|
1720
|
| 1720
|
Robert Sutton
|
|
Louis XV
|
1721
|
| 1721
|
Lukas Schaub
|
(* May 1, 1690–1758):
|
1724
|
| 1724
|
Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole
|
|
1730
|
| 1730
|
James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave
|
|
George II
|
1740
|
| 1740
|
Anthony Thompson
|
Charge d'Affaires , (≈ 30 August 1612 in Lenham, † February 13, 1682 England)
|
1744
|
| 1744
|
War of the Austrian Succession
|
|
1748
|
| 1749
|
Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
|
|
1754
|
| 1754
|
Seven Years War
|
|
1762
|
| 1761
|
Hans Stanley
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
George III
|
|
| 4th Sep 1762
|
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
|
ambassador
|
|
| 1763
|
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford
|
ambassador
|
|
| 1765
|
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
|
ambassador
|
|
| July 2, 1766
|
William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford
|
ambassador
|
|
| 1768
|
David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield
|
|
|
| Sep 9 1772
|
David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield
|
|
|
| 1778
|
American War of Independence
|
|
Louis XVI
|
1782
|
| Feb 10, 1783
|
Francis-Godolphin Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen
|
|
|
| Apr 9, 1783
|
George Montagu, Duke of Manchester
|
|
|
| 1783
|
John-Frederick Sackville, Duke of Dorset
|
|
|
| 1782
|
Thomas Grenville
|
|
|
| 1782
|
Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens
|
|
1783
|
| 1783
|
John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
|
|
|
| 1783
|
John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset
|
|
1789
|
| Apr 28, 1784
|
Daniel Hailes
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
|
| Dec 9, 1785
|
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland
|
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire for Economic Affairs
|
|
| June 11, 1790
|
George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland
|
recalled in September 1792.
|
|
| 1792
|
Coalition wars
|
|
National Convention
|
1796
|
| Oct 13, 1796
|
James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire to negotiate the peace treaty
|
Directory
|
|
| June 30, 1797
|
James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire to negotiate the peace treaty on the island of Lisle
|
Directory
|
|
| Oct 29, 1801
|
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire to the Congress of Amiens
|
Napoleon Bonaparte
|
|
| Apr 1, 1802
|
Anthony Merry
|
|
|
| May 19, 1803
|
Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth
|
|
|
| 1803
|
Coalition wars
|
|
1814
|
| Aug 1, 1806
|
Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford
|
Commissioner for peace negotiations
|
|
| Aug 1, 1806
|
James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale
|
Commissioner for peace negotiations
|
|
| June 4, 1814
|
Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
Louis XVIII
|
|
| July 11, 1814
|
Charles Bagot
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
|
| Aug 8, 1814
|
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
|
|
|
| Jan. 18, 1815
|
Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
|
| March 26, 1815
|
Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay
|
|
|
| Oct 7, 1824
|
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
|
Special envoy to Charles the 10 to take the throne
|
Charles X.
|
|
| Oct 12, 1824
|
Algernon Percy
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
|
| Nov 8, 1824
|
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
|
|
|
| Apr 30, 1825
|
Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland
|
Special envoy for the coronation of Charles X.
|
|
| July 1, 1828
|
Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay
|
|
|
| Dec 8, 1830
|
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
|
|
William IV
|
Louis-Philippe I.
|
|
| March 23, 1832
|
Hamilton-Charles-James Hamilto
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
|
| Apr 19, 1833
|
Arthur Aston
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
|
| March 13, 1835
|
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley
|
|
|
| March 29, 1835
|
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
|
|
|
| July 24, 1837
|
Arthur Aston
|
|
Victoria
|
|
| July 29, 1839
|
Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
|
| Oct 16, 1841
|
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley
|
|
|
| July 20, 1845
|
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley
|
Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
|
| Aug 12, 1846
|
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
|
|
|
| 16 Aug 1848
|
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
|
continued special mission to the French National Assembly
|
|
| Jan. 31, 1849
|
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
|
ambassador
|
Second French Republic
|
|
| 1846
|
Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
|
|
Louis-Philippe I.
|
1852
|
| 1852
|
Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley
|
|
Napoleon III
|
1867
|
| 1867
|
Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons
|
|
1887
|
| 1887
|
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
|
|
Marie François Sadi Carnot
|
1891
|
| 1891
|
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
|
|
Marie François Sadi Carnot
|
1896
|
| 1896
|
Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet
|
|
Félix Faure
|
1905
|
| 1905
|
Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame
|
|
Edward VII
|
Émile Loubet
|
1918
|
| 1918
|
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
|
|
George V.
|
Raymond Poincaré
|
1920
|
| 1920
|
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
|
|
Paul Deschanel
|
1922
|
| 1922
|
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
|
|
Alexandre Millerand
|
1928
|
| 1928
|
William Tyrrell, 1st Baron Tyrrell
|
|
Gaston Doumergue
|
1934
|
| 1934
|
George Russell Clerk
|
|
Albert Lebrun
|
1937
|
| 1937
|
Eric Phipps
|
|
George VI.
|
Albert Lebrun
|
1939
|
| 1939
|
Ronald Hugh Campbell
|
|
Albert Lebrun
|
1940
|
| 1940
|
|
Second World War
|
Albert Lebrun
|
1944
|
| 1944
|
Duff Cooper
|
|
Charles de Gaulle
|
1948
|
| 1948
|
Oliver Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh
|
|
Vincent Auriol
|
1954
|
| 1954
|
Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
|
|
Elizabeth II
|
René Coty
|
1960
|
| 1960
|
Pierson Dixon
|
|
Charles de Gaulle
|
1965
|
| 1965
|
Patrick Reilly
|
|
Charles de Gaulle
|
1968
|
| 1968
|
Christopher Soames
|
|
Charles de Gaulle
|
1972
|
| 1972
|
Edward Tomkins
|
|
Georges Pompidou
|
1975
|
| 1975
|
Nicholas Henderson
|
|
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
|
1979
|
| 1979
|
Reginald Hibbert
|
|
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
|
1982
|
| 1982
|
John Fretwell
|
|
François Mitterrand
|
1987
|
| 1987
|
Ewen Fergusson
|
|
François Mitterrand
|
1993
|
| 1993
|
Christopher Mallaby
|
|
François Mitterrand
|
1996
|
| 1996
|
Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme
|
|
Jacques Chirac
|
2001
|
| 2001
|
John Holmes (diplomat)
|
|
Jacques Chirac
|
2007
|
| 2007
|
Peter Westmacott
|
|
Nicolas Sarkozy
|
2012
|
| 2012
|
Peter Ricketts
|
|
François Hollande
|
2015
|
| 2015
|
Julian King
|
|
François Hollande
|
2016
|
| 2016
|
Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque
|
interim chargé d'affaires
|
François Hollande
|
2016
|
| 2016
|
Edward Llewellyn
|
|
François Hollande
|
|
