List of British envoys to the Hanseatic cities
This is a list of the British envoys in Hamburg .
Hamburg was a Free Imperial City from 1510 , occupied by France in 1806 , annexed from 1811 to 1814, from 1815 a Free City in the German Confederation and from 1871 a federal state in the German Empire . The British envoys were also accredited in Bremen and Lübeck as envoys to the Hanseatic cities .
Heads of mission
English envoy
- 1567-1570: Richard Clough (1530-1570)
- 1570–1578:
1578 to 1611: no representation
- 1611-1618: Richard Gore (1554-1622)
- 1628-1645: Sir Robert Anstruther (1578-1645)
- 1650-1659: Richard Bradshaw
- 1663–1666: Sir William Swan (1619–1678)
- 1669–1682: Sir Peter Wyche (1628–1699)
- 1682–1685: Bevil Skelton (1641–1696)
- 1689-1700: Sir Paul Rycaut (1629-1700)
British envoy
- 1702-1714: Sir John Wich (1672-1714)
- 1714–1741: Sir Cyril Wyche (1695–1756)
- 1741–1756: James Cope (1715–1756)
- 1757–1763: Philip Stanhope (1732–1768)
- 1762–1763: Robert Colebrooke (1718–1784)
- 1763-1772: Sir Ralph Woodford
- 1772–1790: Emanuel Mathias
- 1790-1798: Charles Henry Fraser
- 1798-1803: Sir James Crauford
- 1803-1805: Sir George Rumbold (1764-1807)
- 1805-1807: Edward Thornton (1766-1852)
1806 to 1813: break in relations (until 1837 only consular representation)
- 1813–1820: Alexander Cockburn (1776–1852)
- 1820–1823: Joseph Charles Mellish (1769–1823)
- 1837–1841: Henry Canning (1779–1847)
- 1841–1862: Sir George Floyd Hodges (1792–1862)
- 1862–1870: John Ward (1805–1890)
1870: Dissolution of the legation
See also
literature
- Sabine Freitag , Markus Mösslang: British Envoys to Germany 1816–1866 (in 4 volumes), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011
- David Bayne Horn: British Diplomatic Representatives: 1689-1789 , Offices of the Society, London, 1932
swell
- Johann Martin Lappenberg : Lists of the resident in Hamburg as the diplomats and consuls representing the same . Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Volume 3, Hamburg 1853, p. 441 f . ( online ).
- Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 197 f .
- Jeremy Black: British Diplomats and Diplomacy, 1688-1800 . University of Exeter Press, Exeter 2001 ( online ).
- Isabelle Pantel: Hamburg's neutrality in the Seven Years War . LIT Verlag , Münster 2011, p. 268 ( online ).
- Hedwig Müller von Azow, Erich Hermann Müller von Azow: Georg Friedrich Händel : biography, letters and writings . Georg Olms Verlag , Hildesheim 1977, p. 268 ( online ).