Appointed / Accredited
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Surname
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Remarks
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appointed during the reign of
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accredited at
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Leave post
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1290
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Geoffrey of Langley
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Edward I.
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Gaichatu
|
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1561
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Antony Jenkinson
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Elizabeth I.
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Tahmasp I.
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Dec. 1, 1599
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Robert Shirley
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Elizabeth I.
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Abbas I.
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1600
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1621
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Thomas Roe
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Jacob I.
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Abbas I.
|
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1627
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Dodmore Cotton
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Secretary: Stodart Robert
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Charles I.
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Abbas I.
|
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1743
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Jonas Hanway
|
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George II
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Aga Mohammed Khan
|
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1801
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John Malcolm
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Jonathan Duncan's agent
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Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
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Fath Ali Shah
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1807
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Harford Jones
|
Envoy Extraordinary
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William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
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Fath Ali Shah
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1811
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1810
|
Gore Ouseley
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ambassador
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Spencer Perceval
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Fath Ali Shah
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1814
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Apr 1, 1814
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James Justinian Morier
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Ministre plénipotentiaire
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Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
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Fath Ali Shah
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1815
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Apr 13, 1814
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Henry Ellis
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Ministre plénipotentiaire ad interim, during the absence of James Justinian Morier
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Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
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Fath Ali Shah
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1815
|
1815
|
Henry Willock
|
Chargé d'affaires
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Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
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Fath Ali Shah
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1822
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1823
|
Henry Willock
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Chargé d'affaires
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Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
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Fath Ali Shah
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1826
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July 29, 1826
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John Macdonald Kinneir
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aoEnvoy of William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
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Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
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Fath Ali Shah
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1830
|
1830
|
John Nicoll Robert Campbell
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Charge d'Affaires , 1830 General and plénipotentiaire Ministre
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Charles Gray, 2nd Earl Gray
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Fath Ali Shah
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1835
|
1835
|
Henry Ellis
|
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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Mohammed Shah
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1836
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1836
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Sir John McNeill
|
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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Mohammed Shah
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1838
|
1839
|
Break in diplomatic relations
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Siege of Herat by Qajar troops at the start of the first Anglo-Afghan war
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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Mohammed Shah
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1841
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1839
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Sir John McNeill
|
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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Mohammed Shah
|
1844
|
1842
|
Justin Sheil
|
D'affaires from 1844 ao Minister and Minister for plénipotentiaire
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Robert Peel
|
Mohammed Shah
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1854
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1847
|
Francis Farrant
|
Chargé d'affaires
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
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Mohammed Shah
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1849
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Nov 1849
|
William Taylour Thomson
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Chargé d'affaires
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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
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Naser ad-Din Shah
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Nov. 1855
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1854
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Charles Augustus Murray
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Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
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Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
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Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1858
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Nov 1, 1856
|
Break in diplomatic relations
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Anglo-Persian War
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Naser ad-Din Shah
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Apr 4, 1857
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1857
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Charles Augustus Murray
|
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Naser ad-Din Shah
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1859
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1858
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William Doria
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Chargé d'affaires
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Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
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Naser ad-Din Shah
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1859
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Nov. 1859
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Ronald Ferguson Thomson
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Chargé d'affaires
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Naser ad-Din Shah
|
Dec 1859
|
1859
|
Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
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Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1860
|
Apr 7, 1860
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Charles Alison
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Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Naser ad-Din Shah
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Apr 29, 1872
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May 1860
|
Lewis Pelly
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Chargé d'affaires
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Naser ad-Din Shah
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July 1860
|
Nov 1862
|
Ronald Ferguson Thomson
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Chargé d'affaires
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
|
Naser ad-Din Shah
|
Dec 1862
|
Dec 1862
|
Edward Backhouse Eastwick
|
Chargé d'affaires
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Naser ad-Din Shah
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Jan. 1863
|
1863
|
Ronald Ferguson Thomson
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Chargé d'affaires
|
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Naser ad-Din Shah
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1870
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Apr. 1872
|
William John Dickson
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
Benjamin Disraeli
|
Naser ad-Din Shah
|
May 1872
|
1872
|
Ronald Ferguson Thomson
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
Benjamin Disraeli
|
Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1873
|
1872
|
William Taylour Thomson
|
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
Benjamin Disraeli
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Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1879
|
1879
|
Ronald Ferguson Thomson
|
Chargé 1878-79. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 1879-87
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1887
|
1885
|
Arthur Nicolson
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Chargé d'affaires
|
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
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Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1888
|
1888
|
Henry Drummond Wolff
|
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William Ewart Gladstone
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Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1891
|
1889
|
Robert John Kennedy
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Chargé d'affaires
|
William Ewart Gladstone
|
Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1891
|
1891
|
Frank Lascelles
|
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
William Ewart Gladstone
|
Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1894
|
1894
|
William Conyngham Greene
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
|
Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1894
|
1894
|
Mortimer Durand
|
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
|
Naser ad-Din Shah
|
1900
|
1897
|
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
|
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah
|
1898
|
1900
|
Cecil Spring-Rice
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
|
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah
|
|
1900
|
Arthur Henry Hardinge
|
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Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
|
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah
|
1906
|
Oct 1902
|
Charles Louis des Graz
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
Arthur Balfour
|
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah
|
Nov. 1902
|
Sep 1905
|
Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
|
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah
|
Sep 1906
|
1906
|
Cecil Spring-Rice
|
|
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
|
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah
|
1908
|
1908
|
George Head Barclay
|
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
Herbert Henry Asquith
|
Mohammed Ali Shah
|
1912
|
1912
|
Walter Beaupré Townley
|
|
Herbert Henry Asquith
|
Ahmad Shah Qajar
|
1916
|
1916
|
Charles Marling
|
|
David Lloyd George
|
Ahmad Shah Qajar
|
1918
|
1918
|
Percy Zachariah Cox
|
|
David Lloyd George
|
Ahmad Shah Qajar
|
1920
|
1920
|
Herman Cameron Norman
|
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
David Lloyd George
|
Ahmad Shah Qajar
|
1921
|
1921
|
Percy Lyham Loraine
|
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
David Lloyd George
|
Ahmad Shah Qajar
|
1926
|
1926
|
Robert Henry Clive
|
|
Ramsay MacDonald
|
Reza Shah Pahlavi
|
1931
|
1931
|
Reginald Hoare
|
|
Ramsay MacDonald
|
Reza Shah Pahlavi
|
1935
|
1934
|
Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen
|
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
Ramsay MacDonald
|
Reza Shah Pahlavi
|
1939
|
1936
|
Horace James Seymour
|
|
Stanley Baldwin
|
Reza Shah Pahlavi
|
1942
|
Feb. 1944
|
Reader Bullard
|
Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire
|
Winston Churchill
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
1946
|
Apr 18, 1946
|
John Helier Le Rougetel
|
ambassador
|
Winston Churchill
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
1950
|
March 4th 1950
|
Francis Shepherd
|
|
Winston Churchill
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
1952
|
Jan. 28, 1952
|
George Humphrey Middleton
|
|
Winston Churchill
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
|
Oct 31, 1952
|
Break in diplomatic relations
|
Following the re-tendering of the concessions for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, MI6 initiated Operation Boot and the diplomatic mission was withdrawn.
|
Winston Churchill
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
1953
|
Dec 22, 1953
|
Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
Winston Churchill
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
|
1954
|
Roger Bentham Stevens
|
|
Winston Churchill
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
1958
|
1958
|
Geoffrey Wedgwood Harrison
|
|
Harold Macmillan
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
1963
|
1963
|
Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright
|
|
Alec Douglas Home
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
1971
|
1971
|
Peter Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury
|
|
Edward Heath
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
1974
|
1974
|
Anthony Derrick Parsons
|
|
Harold Wilson
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
1979
|
1979
|
John Alexander Noble Graham, 4th Baronet
|
|
Margaret Thatcher
|
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
1980
|
1980
|
Stephen Jeremy Barrett
|
Head of British Interests Section, Royal Swedish Embassy, Tehran
|
Margaret Thatcher
|
Abolhassan Banisadr
|
1981
|
1981
|
Nicholas John Barrington
|
Head of British Interests Section, Royal Swedish Embassy, Tehran
|
Margaret Thatcher
|
Ali Khamene'i
|
1983
|
1984
|
Paul Andrew Ramsay
|
Senior Visa Officer British Interests Section, Tehran
|
Margaret Thatcher
|
Ali Khamene'i
|
1987
|
1989
|
Nicholas Walker Browne
|
Fatwa by Ruhollah Khomeini / Salman Rushdie
|
Margaret Thatcher
|
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
|
Feb. 14, 1989
|
Feb. 14, 1989
|
Break in diplomatic relations
|
Fatwa by Ruhollah Khomeini / Salman Rushdie
|
Margaret Thatcher
|
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
|
1990
|
1990
|
David Reddaway
|
|
John Major
|
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
|
1993
|
1993
|
Jeffrey Russell James
|
Chargé d'affaires
|
John Major
|
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
|
1997
|
1997
|
Nicholas Walker Browne
|
|
Tony Blair
|
Mohammad Chatami
|
2002
|
2003
|
Richard John Dalton
|
|
Tony Blair
|
Mohammad Chatami
|
2006
|
2006
|
Geoffrey Adams
|
|
Tony Blair
|
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
|
2009
|
2009
|
Simon Gass
|
|
Gordon Brown
|
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
|
Apr 14, 2011
|
Oct 2011
|
Dominick Chilcott
|
|
David Cameron
|
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
|
Nov 2011
|
Nov 29, 2011
|
Break in diplomatic relations
|
The British embassy in Tehran was closed after an attack on the embassy on November 29, 2011. Sweden represented British interests in Iran through a British interests division at the Swedish embassy in Tehran.
|
David Cameron
|
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
|
Nov 11, 2013
|
Nov 11, 2013
|
Ajay Sharma
|
non-resident charge d'affaires in Tehran
|
David Cameron
|
Hassan Rouhani
|
23 Aug 2015
|
23 Aug 2015
|
Ajay Sharma
|
Chargé d'affaires in Tehran opens the British Embassy in Tehran.
|
David Cameron
|
Hassan Rouhani
|
Nov 2015
|
Dec 2015
|
Nicholas Hopton
|
Chargé d'affaires in Tehran.
|
David Cameron
|
Hassan Rouhani
|
Sep 2016
|
Sep 2016
|
Nicholas Hopton
|
appointed ambassador.
|
Theresa May
|
Hassan Rouhani
|
|
Apr. 2018
|
Robert Nigel Paul Macaire
|
ambassador
|
Theresa May
|
Hassan Rouhani
|
|