List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France

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Style His Excellency		Appointer Queen Elizabeth II

Residence Hôtel de Charost in Paris Inaugural holder The Marquess Cornwallis First Ambassador of the United Kingdom to France, 1801 Website www.gov.uk/government/world/france

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to France (French: L'Ambassadeur britannique en France) is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in France, and is the head of Britain's diplomatic mission in Paris. The official title is Her Majesty's Ambassador to France.

Traditionally, the Embassy to France has been the most prestigious posting in the British foreign service, although in past centuries, diplomatic representation was lacking due to wars between the two countries and the Nazi occupation.

Since 1814, the Hôtel de Charost in Paris has been the official residence of the ambassador.

For the period before the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, see List of ambassadors from the Kingdom of England to France (up to 1707) and List of ambassadors of Great Britain to France (from 1707 to 1800).

British Ambassadors and Ministers to France

There was no representation of Great Britain or the United Kingdom in France from 1792 to 1801, due to the French Revolutionary Wars

1801–1802: The Marquess Cornwallis, Plenipotentiary

1802–1803: The Lord Whitworth

No representation from 1803 to 1814, due to the Napoleonic Wars

1806: Francis Seymour-Conway, Earl of Yarmouth and James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, Plenipotentiaries

1814–1815: The Duke of Wellington

1815–1824: Sir Charles Stuart

1824–1828: The Viscount Granville

1828–1830: The Lord Stuart de Rothesay

1830–1835: The Viscount Granville

1835: The Lord Cowley

1835–1841: The Earl Granville

1841–1846: The Lord Cowley

1846–1852: The Marquess of Normanby

1852–1867: The Earl Cowley

1867–1887: The Viscount Lyons

1887–1891: The Earl of Lytton

1891–1896: The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

1896–1905: Sir Edmund Monson

1905–1918: Sir Francis Bertie

1918–1920: The Earl of Derby

1920–1922: The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst

1922–1928: The Marquess of Crewe

1928–1934: Sir William Tyrrell

1934–1937: Sir George Clerk

1937–1939: Sir Eric Phipps

1939–1940: Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell

No representation from 1940 to 1944, due to the German occupation of France during the Second World War

1944–1948: Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, (previously Representative to the Free French in Algiers from 1943)

1948–1954: Sir Oliver Harvey

1954–1960: Sir Gladwyn Jebb

1960–1965: Sir Pierson Dixon

1965–1968: Sir Patrick Reilly

1968–1972: Sir Christopher Soames

1972–1975: Sir Edward Tomkins

1975–1979: Sir Nicholas Henderson

1979–1982: Sir Reginald Hibbert

1982–1987: Sir John Fretwell

1987–1993: Sir Ewen Fergusson

1993–1996: Sir Christopher Mallaby

1996–2001: Sir Michael Jay

2001–2007: Sir John Holmes

2007–2012: Sir Peter Westmacott

2012–2015: Sir Peter Ricketts

2016–2016: Sir Julian King

2016: Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque (chargée d'affaires ad interim)

2016–present: Edward Llewellyn (Lord Llewellyn of Steep)

References

List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to France Wikipedia

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