List of British envoys in Tuscany

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This is a list of the British and (from 1707 ) British envoys and authorized ministers in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany (until 1859).

history

The importance of the legation post at the Grand Ducal Tuscan court in Florence was mainly in the cultural field. and the Tuscan court had lost little of its cultural appeal to the last. In this regard, Sir Horace Mann is particularly noteworthy among the officials , who made cultural exchange his task in many ways. He liked to host English people traveling through and gave social and cultural receptions for illustrious Florentine society. Horace Mann was accredited in 1738, and his term of office coincides with the change of dynasty from the House of Medici to the House of Habsburg-Lothringen ; he remained in office for over forty years. During this time, the English art patron George Nassau, third Earl Cowper, settled in Florence.

British poets and writers such as Walter Savage Landor or the married couple Elizabeth and Robert Browning followed , who ran a literary salon in Florence. Under the envoy Lord Holland, the Villa Medici in the Florentine suburb of Careggi was rented as an embassy residence in 1845 . With the unification of Italy , the embassy was abolished in 1859 and Florence later became the seat of a consulate general .

Heads of mission

English envoy

  • 1659-1664: Joseph Kent
  • 1665–1671: Sir John Finch
  • 1678–1678: Thomas Plott
  • 1681–1689: Sir Thomas Dereham
  • 1689-1705: Sir Lambert Blackwell

British envoy

1707: Establishment of diplomatic relations
Appointment /
accreditation 		Recall Surname Remarks appointed
by		 accredited
at
1707 1711 Sir Henry Newton (* 1650- † 1715) Anne Cosimo III.
1710 1714 Lord John Molesworth (* 1679; † 1726) 1720 to 1725 envoy to Sardinia-Piedmont Anne Cosimo III.
1714 1722 Henry Davenant George I. Cosimo III.
1722 1724 Lord John Molesworth (II Term) George I. Cosimo III.
1724 1733 Francis Colman (* 1691; † 1733) George I. Gian Gastone
1733 1734 Brinley Skinner (* 1696; † 1764) Chargé d'affaires George II Gian Gastone
1734 1739 Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane (* 1708; † 1766) George II Gian Gastone
1740 1786 Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet (* 1706; † 1786) George II Francis II
1786 1787 Sir Horace Mann, 2nd Baronet (* 1744- † 1814) George III Leopold I.
1787 1787 John Udney (* 1755; † 1802) Chargé d'affaires George III Leopold I.
1787 1794 Lord John Hervey (* 1757; † 1796) George III Leopold I.
1794 1814 William Wyndham (* 1763; † 1828) George III Ferdinand III.
1814 1830 Lord John Fane
Lord Burghersh
(* 1784; † 1859) 1841 to 1851 envoy to Prussia , 1851 to 1855 ambassador to Austria 		George III Ferdinand III.
1830 1835 Sir George Seymour (* 1797; † 1880) 1851 to 1854 ambassador to Russia , 1855 to 1858 to Austria George IV Leopold II.
1835 1838 Ralph Abercromby (* 1803; † 1868) 1839 to 1840 envoy to the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main William IV Leopold II.
1838 1846 Lord Henry Fox, 4th Baron Holland (* 1802; † 1859) Victoria Leopold II.
1846 1850 Sir George Baillie Hamilton (* 1799- † 1850) Victoria Leopold II.
1850 1851 Richard Lalor Sheil (* 1791; † 1851) Victoria Leopold II.
1851 1852 Sir James Hudson (* 1810- † 1885) Victoria Leopold II.
1852 1854 Sir Henry Bulwer (* 1801; † 1872) Minister in Spain from 1844 to 1848 , and in the United States from 1849 to 1852 Victoria Leopold II.
1854 1858 Constantine Phipps (* 1797; † 1863) 1846 to 1852 ambassador to France Victoria Leopold II.
1858 1858 Richard Lyons
Richard Lyons
(* 1817; † 1887) 1858 to 1865 envoy to the United States , 1867 to 1887 ambassador to France 		Victoria Leopold II.
1858 1859 Peter Campbell Scarlett (* 1804; † 1881) envoy to Brazil from 1855 to 1858, and to Greece from 1862 to 1864 Victoria Leopold II.
1859: Dissolution of the embassy

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Bayne Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 . Offices of the Society, London 1932
  2. ^ Stanley Thomas Bindoff, British Diplomatic Representatives, 1789-1852 . Offices of the Society, London 1934
  3. ↑ Jeremy Black, British Diplomats and Diplomacy, 1688-1800 . University of Exeter Press, Exeter 2001