List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Austria

The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Austria is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Austria, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Vienna. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Austria.

For the ambassadors from the Court of St James's up to 1707, see the list of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to the Holy Roman Emperor and for the period 1707 to 1800, see the list of ambassadors of Great Britain to the Holy Roman Emperor.

Since 2006 the ambassador to Austria has also been the permanent representative to the United Nations and other international organisations in Vienna including the IAEA. Before 2006, this was a separate post.

List of heads of mission

Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary at the Court of Vienna

• 1799–1801: Gilbert, Lord Minto^[1]
• 1801–1806: Sir Arthur Paget^[2]
  • 1805: The Earl of Harrington (Extraordinary Mission)
• 1806–1807: Robert Adair

Plenipotentiaries at the Court of Vienna

• 1807: George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke^[3]
• 1807–1813: no ambassador due to Napoleonic Wars
  • 1809: Benjamin Bathurst (Extraordinary Mission)
• 1813–1814: George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen^[4]

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Austria

• 1814–1823: Lord Stewart^[5]
• 1823–1831: Sir Henry Wellesley^[6]
• 1831–1841: Sir Frederick Lamb^[7]
• 1841–1846: Sir Robert Gordon^[8]
• 1846–1850: John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby
• 1851–1855: John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
• 1855–1858: Sir George Hamilton Seymour
• 1858–1860: Lord Augustus Loftus
• 1860–1867: John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield

Ambassadors to Austria-Hungary

• 1867–1871: John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield
• 1871–1877: Sir Andrew Buchanan
• 1877–1884: Sir Henry Elliot
• 1884–1893: Sir Augustus Paget
• 1893–1896: Sir Edmund Monson
• 1896–1900: Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt.^[9]
• 1900–1905: Sir Francis Plunkett
• 1905–1908: Sir Edward Goschen
• 1908–1913: Sir Fairfax Cartwright
• 1913–1914: Sir Maurice de Bunsen
• 1914–1919: no representation due to First World War

High commissioners to Austria

• 1919–1920: Sir Francis Lindley

Ambassadors to Austria

• 1920–1921: Sir Francis Lindley
• 1921–1928: Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston
• 1928–1933: Sir Eric Phipps
• 1933–1937: Sir Walford Selby
• 1937–1938: Michael Palairet
• 1938–1945: no representation due to Anschluss and Second World War

Political representatives in Austria

• 1945–1947: Sir Henry Mack

Ambassadors to Austria

• 1946–1948: Sir Henry Mack
• 1948–1949: Sir Bertrand Jerram
• 1949–1954: Sir Harold Caccia
• 1954–1958: Sir Geoffrey Wallinger
• 1958–1961: Sir James Bowker
• 1961–1965: Sir Malcolm Henderson^[10]
• 1965–1967: Sir John Pilcher
• 1967–1970: Sir Anthony Rumbold, Bt.
• 1970–1972: Sir Peter Wilkinson
• 1972–1976: Sir Denis Laskey
• 1976–1979: Hugh Travers Morgan
• 1979–1982: Donald Gordon
• 1982–1986: Michael Alexander
• 1986–1989: Robert O'Neill
• 1989–1992: Brian Crowe
• 1992–1996: Terence Wood
• 1996–2000: Sir Anthony Figgis
• 2000–2003: Antony Ford^[11]
• 2003–2007: John Macgregor
• 2007–2012: Simon Smith
• 2012–2016: Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque^[12]
• 2016–2021: Leigh Turner^[13]
• 2021–present^[update]: Lindsay Skoll^[14]

References

• J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851),

1. "No. 15156". The London Gazette. 6 July 1799. p. 682.
2. "No. 15373". The London Gazette. 6 June 1801. p. 635.
3. "No. 16021". The London Gazette. 18 April 1807. p. 495.
4. "No. 16769". The London Gazette. 31 August 1813. p. 1723.
5. "No. 16930". The London Gazette. 30 August 1814. p. 1759.
6. "No. 17892". The London Gazette. 1 February 1823. p. 170.
7. "No. 18803". The London Gazette. 13 May 1831. p. 923.
8. "No. 20029". The London Gazette. 19 October 1841. p. 2567.
9. "No. 26786". The London Gazette. 16 October 1896. p. 5677.
10. "No. 42582". The London Gazette. 26 January 1962. p. 686.
11. "Ambassadors". Hansard. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
12. Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Austria – Foreign & Commonwealth Office press release, 2 November 2011
13. Leigh Turner CMG, Ambassador Designate to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna, gov.uk
14. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the UN in Vienna: Lindsay Skoll". FCDO. Retrieved 9 January 2022.

External links

• UK and Austria, gov.uk