List of Italian Ambassadors in the United Kingdom

Italian Embassy in London

List of heads of the Italian diplomatic mission in London

The Italian Ambassador to the Court of St James’s resides at 14 Three Kings Yard, London W1K 4EH. The Three Kings Yard postal address is on a small back street off Davies Street; however, the embassy is de facto located in Grosvenor Square in the Mayfair district.

ambassador

Appointment / accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited during the government of	Leave post
Apr 13, 1859	Emanuelle Taparelli d'Azeglio	Ministre plénipotentiaire con Lettere di credito	Urbano Rattazzi	Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Apr 26, 1869	Carlo Cadorna	Ambassador Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire con Lettere di credito		Benjamin Disraeli
March 10, 1876	Luigi Federico Menabrea	Ambassador Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire con Lettere di credito	Agostino Depretis	Benjamin Disraeli
July 19, 1881	Carlo Felice Nicolis di Robilant	General Agent , Ambassador Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire con Lettere di credito		William Ewart Gladstone
Dec. 24, 1882	Constantino Nigra	Ambassador Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire con Lettere di credito
Feb 21, 1886	Luigi Córti	Ambassador Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire con Lettere di credito
Dec 13, 1888	Tommaso Catalani	Chargé d'affaires	Francesco Crispi
Oct 12, 1889	Giuseppe Torneielli-Brusati di Vergano	Ambassador Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire con Lettere di credito
Nov 5, 1894	Giulio Silvestrelli	Chargé d'affaires		Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Feb 3, 1895	Annibale Ferrero	Ambassador Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire con Lettere di credito		Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
4th Sep 1898	Francesco de Renzis	Ambassador Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire con Lettere di credito	Luigi Pelloux
March 8, 1906	Tommaso Tittoni		Sidney Sonnino	Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Aug 8, 1906	Antonio Paternò Castello di San Giuliano	A. Paternò Castello di San Giuliano	Sidney Sonnino
May 8, 1910	Guglielmo Imperiali di Francavilla	ambassador	Luigi Luzzatti	Herbert Henry Asquith
Nov 24, 1920	Giacomo de Martino	ambassador	Francesco Saverio Nitti	David Lloyd George
Nov 19, 1922	Pietro Tomasi della Torretta	ambassador	Benito Mussolini	Andrew Bonar Law
Feb 6, 1927	Antonio Chiaramonte Bordonaro	ambassador		Ramsay MacDonald
July 28, 1932	Dino Grandi	Ambassador, 1939 Minister of Justice		Ramsay MacDonald
22 Sep 1939	Giuseppe Bastianini	ambassador		Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Nov 17, 1944	Nicolò Carandini	Ambassador con Lettere di credito	Pietro Badoglio	Winston Churchill
Oct 6, 1947	Tommaso Gallarati Scotti	Ambassador con Lettere di credito	Ferruccio Parri
Oct 19, 1951	Manlio Giovanni Brosio
Nov 18, 1954	Vittorio Zoppi		Amintore Fanfani		1955
1961	Pietro Quaroni		Fernando Tambroni	Harold Macmillan	1964
1972	Raimondo Manzini		Giulio Andreotti	Edward Heath
1975	Roberto Ducci		Aldo Moro	Harold Wilson	1980
1985	Bruno Bottai	(* July 10, 1930 in Rome)	Bettino Craxi	Margaret Thatcher
1987	Boris Biancheri Chiappori		Amintore Fanfani
1991	Giacomo Attolico	Son of Bernardo Attolic, ambassador to France from 1988 to 1991	Giulio Andreotti	John Major	1995
1999	Paolo Galli	(* October 4, 1928)	Massimo D'Alema	Tony Blair
2005	Giancarlo Aragona		Silvio Berlusconi
Apr 6, 2010	Alain Giorgio Maria Economides			David Cameron
1st of May 2013	Pasquale Terracciano		Cabinet Letta	Cameron II cabinet
Jan. 29, 2018	Raffaele Trombetta		Gentiloni cabinet	Cabinet May II

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Conte Vittorio Zoppi in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ Bruno Bottai  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Boris Biancheri Chiappori (PDF; 36 kB)
4. ↑ Alain Giorgio Maria Economides
5. ↑ Ambasciata d'Italia in Londra (PDF; 26 kB); Ambasciata d'Italia in Londra . (PDF; 2.9 MB)