List of ambassadors of Great Britain to Portugal

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Style His Excellency Appointer The monarch		Residence Lisbon

Inaugural holder Sir Paul Methuen First Ambassador of Great Britain to Portugal Final holder John Hookham Frere Last Ambassador of Great Britain to Portugal (Chargé d'Affaires)

The Ambassador of Great Britain to Portugal was the foremost diplomatic representative in Portugal of the Kingdom of Great Britain, created by the Treaty of Union in 1707, in charge of the British diplomatic mission.

For Ambassadors from the Court of St James's to Portugal before 1707 see List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to Portugal. For Ambassadors after 1800, see List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Portugal.

Heads of Mssion

1707-1708: Sir Paul Methuen (last English ambassador to Portugal)

1708-1710: Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway

1709-1710: Thomas Leffever Chargé d'affaires in absence of Galway>

1710-1714 George Delaval

1714-1722: Henry Worsley

1722–1724: Hon. Thomas Lumley

1725-1728: Brigadier James Dormer

1728: Charles Crompton Chargé d'affaires

1728-1742: Lord Tyrawley

1742-1745: Charles Crompton (Chargé d'affaires from 1741)

1745: Abraham Castres Chargé d'affaires

1745-1749: Sir Benjamin Keene

1749-1757: Abraham Castres

1757-1767: Hon. Edward Hay

1760: Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull Special Mission

1762: Lord Tyrawley Envoy Plenipotentiary

1767–1770: William Henry Lyttelton (created Lord Westcote in 1776 and Lord Lyttelton in 1794): Envoy-extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

1771–1800: Hon. Robert Walpole Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

1786: William Fawkener (jointly with Walpole) for negotiating commercial affairs

1800: John Hookham Frere (first United Kingdom ambassador to Portugal)

References

List of ambassadors of Great Britain to Portugal Wikipedia

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