List of British ambassadors to Russia
List of Ambassadors from the Kingdom of Great Britain , the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Kingdom to Russia and the Soviet Union .
Ambassador to the Russian Empire
- 1707–1712: Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth
- 1714–1719: Friedrich Christian Weber
- 1714-1715: George Mackenzie-Quin
- 1715-1716: James Haldane
- 1716: George Douglas, 2nd Earl of Dumbarton
- 1718–1721: James Jeffereys (retired to Danzig in 1719 )
- 1719–1730: No diplomatic representation
- 1728-1731: Thomas Ward
- 1731: John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
- 1731-1739: Claud Rondeau
- 1733-1734: George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard
- 1739-1742: Edward Finch
- 1741–1744: Cyril Wyche, 1st Baronet
- 1744-1749: John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford
- 1749–1755: Melchior Guy Dickens
- 1755-1759: Charles Hanbury Williams
- 1759-1762: Robert Murray Keith
- 1762–1765: John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
- 1764-1767: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
- 1766–1767: Hans Stanley (never went to Russia)
- 1767-1768: Henry Shirley
- 1768-1772: Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart
- 1772–1775: Robert Gunning, 1st Baronet
- 1776–1783: James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury
- 1783–1788: Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens
- 1788–1800: Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth
- 1791: William Augustus Fawkener special order
- 1800–1801: No diplomatic representation during the Second “Armed Neutrality” 1800–01
- 1801-1802: Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens
- 1802–1804: John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet
- 1804-1806: Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
- 1805-1806: William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart
- 1807: Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton special order
- 1807: Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
- 1807–1812: No diplomatic representation after the Peace of Tilsit
- 1812: Edward Thornton agent based in Stockholm
- 1812-1820: William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart
- 1820-1825: Charles Bagot
- 1820–1824: Frederick Cathcart Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim
- 1824–1825: Edward Michael Ward Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim
- 1825-1826: Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
- 1825–1828: Edward Cromwell Disbrowe Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim
- 1828–1832: William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury
- 1828–1832: William Temple Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim
- 1832–1833: Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (Formal ambassador, but he did not go)
- 1832–1835: John Duncan Bligh Deputy Minister ad interim
- 1835-1837: John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham
- 1837–1838: John Ralph Milbanke Minister Plenipotentiary ad interim
- 1838–1841: Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
- 1841–1844: Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay
- 1844-1851: John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield
- 1851-1854: George Hamilton Seymour
- 1854–1856: No diplomatic representation during the Crimean War
- 1856-1858: John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
- 1858–1861: John Crampton, 2nd Baronet
- 1861–1864: Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier
- 1864–1867: Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet
- 1867–1871: George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry
- 1871–1879: Augustus Loftus
- 1879–1881: Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
- 1881-1884: Edward Thornton
- 1884-1893: Robert Morier
- 1894–1895: Frank Lascelles
- 1895–1898: Nicholas Roderick O'Conor
- 1898–1904: Charles Scott (diplomat)
- 1904–1906: Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
- 1906-1910: Arthur Nicolson
- 1910–1917: George William Buchanan
Ambassador to the Soviet Union
- 1917–1924: No diplomatic representation after the October Revolution
- 1924-1929: Robert Hodgson
- 1929-1933: Esmond Ovey
- 1933-1939: Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston
- 1939-1940: William Seeds
- 1940–1942: Richard Stafford Cripps
- 1942–1946: Archibald Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel
- 1946-1949: Maurice Peterson
- 1949–1951: David Victor Kelly
- 1951-1953: Alvary Gascoigne
- 1953–1957: William Hayter
- 1957-1960: Patrick Reilly
- 1960–1962: Frank Kenyon Roberts
- 1962-1965: Humphrey Trevelyan
- 1965-1968: Geoffrey Harrison
- 1968-1971: Archibald Duncan Wilson
- 1971-1973: John Killick
- 1973–1976: Terence Garvey
- 1976-1978: Howard Frank Trayton Smith
- 1978-1982: Curtis Keeble
- 1982–1985: Iain Sutherland
- 1985–1988: Bryan Cartledge
- 1988-1991: Rodric Braithwaite
Ambassador to the Russian Federation
- 1991-1992: Rodric Braithwaite
- 1992-1995: Brian Fall
- 1995-2000: Andrew Wood
- 2000-2004: Roderic Lyne
- 2004-2008: Anthony Brenton
- 2008-2011: Anne Fyfe Pringle
- 2011-2016: Tim Barrow
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, p. 587
- ↑ Alvary Gascoigne , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 28/1953 of June 29, 1953, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)