The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Netherlands is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Netherlands, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in the Netherlands. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Since the formation in 1997 of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is located in The Hague, the British Ambassador to the Netherlands has also been the UK's Permanent Representative to the OPCW, assisted by a Chemical Weapons team at the Embassy.
1575−1578: Daniel Rogers Agent and Special agent 1578-1579
1575−1576: Robert Corbet Special Ambassador
1577: Philip Sidney Special Ambassador
1577−1579: William Davison Resident agent; Special Ambassador 1584-1585; English Councillor 1585−1586
1585−1586: Henry Killigrew and Dr Bartholomew Clerke English Councillors on the Dutch Council of State
1586−1587: Thomas Wilkes Special Ambassador then English Councillor on the Dutch Council of State; also 1578, 1582, and 1590
1587−1589: Henry Killigrew English Councillor on the Dutch Council of State
1588−1593: Thomas Bodley English Councillor on the Dutch Council of State; again 1594−1596
1593−1602: George Gilpin English Councillor on the Dutch Council of State
1603–1613: Sir Ralph Winwood Agent 1603-1607; Commissioner (with Spencer) 1607-1609; then Resident ambassador
1607–1609: Sir Richard Spencer Commissioner (with Winwood)
1614–1615: Sir Henry Wotton
1615–1625 and 1626-1628: Sir Dudley Carleton1625: George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Ambassador Extraordinary
1625–1632: Dudley Carleton, his nephew Chargé d'Affaires; then Agent
1632–1649: Sir William Boswell Agent until 1634; then Ambassador
1642–1650: Walter Strickland Ambassador (appointed by Parliament)1644: Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Jermyn Ambassador
No representation due to the First Anglo-Dutch War 1652–1654
1657–1665: Sir George Downing
No representation due to the Second Anglo-Dutch War 1665–1667
1668–1670: Sir William Temple, Bt
1671–1672: William Blathwayt Chargé d'Affaires
No representation due to the Third Anglo-Dutch War 1672–1674
1674–1679: Sir William Temple, Bt
1678–1679: Roger Meredith Chargé d'Affaires
1679–1681: Henry Sidney
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the United Provinces
1681–1682: Thomas Plott Agent
1681–1685: Thomas Chudleigh
1685–1686: Bevil Skelton Ambassador
1686–1688: Sir Ignatius Vitus, Bt
1689: Thomas Herbert, Earl of Pembroke
1689–1695: Charles Berkeley, Viscount Dursley Envoy Extraordinary1690: William Harbord
1695–1697: Edward Villiers, 1st Viscount Villiers
1697–1699: Sir Joseph Williamson
1700–1706: Alexander Stanhope Envoy Extraordinary1701 and 1702–1712: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
1706–1712: James Dayrolle Resident
1706–1707: George Stepney Envoy Extraordinary (but rarely at The Hague)
1707–1709: William Cadogan Envoy Extraordinary (but rarely at The Hague)
1709–1711: Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
1711: Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery Envoy Extraordinary
1711–1714: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
1714–1720 William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan Envoy Extraordinary until 1716 then AmbassadorJan – Apr 1715 and Oct 1715–Oct 1716: Horatio Walpole
1717: William Leathes seconded as Resident from his post in Brussels
1717–1721: Charles Whitworth Envoy Extraordinary 1717; then Minister Plenipotentiary (seconded from his post in Berlin)
1717–1739: James Dayrolle Resident
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the United Provinces
May-Jul 1722: Horatio Walpole Minister Plenipotentiary
1724–1728: William Finch Envoy Extraordinary
1728–1732: Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Ambassador
1733–1734: William Finch Minister Plenipotentiarywww.inghist.nl
1734–1739: Horatio Walpole Minister 1734; then Envoy Extraordinary (absent 1736-Jun 1739)
1736–1746: Robert Trevor (Secretary 1736-1736; then Envoy Extraordinary until 1741, then also Minister Plenipotentiary)1742–1743: John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair Ambassador
1745: Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
1746–1749: John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich Minister Plenipotentiary1747–1752: Solomon Dayrolle Resident
1749–1751: Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness Minister Plenipotentiary
1751–1780: Joseph Yorke Minister Plenipotentiary until 1761 then Ambassador
No representation due to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War 1780–1784
1784–1789: Sir James Harris Minister Plenipotentiary until 1788; then (as Lord Malmesbury) Ambassador
1789–1790: Alleyne Fitzherbert Envoy Extraordinary
1790–1793: William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland (ambassador)1790–1793: Lord Henry John Spencer Secretary, but Minister ad interim 1791-1792 and 1793
1793—1794: Hon. William Eliot Minister ad interim
1794–1795: Alleyne FitzHerbert
Diplomatic Relations suspended 1795–1802
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Batavian Republic
1802–1803: Robert Liston
Diplomatic Relations suspended 1803–1813
Ambassadors to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
Under the Treaty of Vienna in 1815, the northern and southern Netherlands were united into the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1813–1815: Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty
1815: Sir Charles Stuart
1815–1816: John James Minister ad interim
1816–1817: George William Chad Minister ad interim
1817–1824: Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty1818–1819, 1819, 1822 and 1824: George William Chad Minister ad interim
1824: Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Viscount Granville
1824: Andrew Snape Douglas (ad interim)
1824–1829: Sir Charles Bagot
1829–1832: Thomas Cartwright (ad interim)
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was dissolved by the secession of the Southern Netherlands in the Belgian Revolution
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands
1832: Hon. John Duncan Bligh (ad interim)
1833–1836: Hon. George Jerningham Chargé d'affaires
1836–1851: Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe
1851–1858: Sir Ralph Abercromby
1858–1860: Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier
1860–1862: Sir Andrew Buchanan
1862–1867: Sir John Ralph Milbanke, 8th Bt
1867–1877: Hon. Edward Harris
1877–1888: Hon. William Stuart
1888–1896: Sir Horace Rumbold, 8th Bt
1896-1908: Sir Henry Howard
1908–1910: Sir George Buchanan
1910–1917: Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone
1917–1919: Sir Walter Townley
1919–1921: Sir Ronald Graham
1921–1926: Sir Charles Marling
1926–1928: Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville
1928–1933: Hon. Sir Odo Russell
1933–1938: Sir Hubert Montgomery
1938–1942: Sir Nevile Bland
Ambassadors to the Netherlands
1942–1948: Sir Nevile Bland
1948–1952: Sir Philip Nichols
1952–1954: Sir Nevile Butler
1954–1960: Sir Paul Mason
1960–1964: Sir Andrew Noble
1964-1970: Sir Peter Garran
1970–1972: Sir Edward Tomkins
1972–1977: Sir John Barnes
1977–1979: Sir Richard Sykes
1979–1981: Sir Jock Taylor
1981–1984: Sir Philip Mansfield
1984–1988: Sir John Margetson
1988–1993: Sir Michael Jenkins
1993–1996: Sir David Miers
1996–2001: Dame Rosemary Spencer
2001–2005: Sir Colin Budd
2005–2009: Lyn Parker
2009–2013: Paul Arkwright
2013–present: Sir Geoffrey Adams
