List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Greece explained

Post:	Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Hellenic Republic
Insignia:	Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government) (2022).svg
Insigniasize:	120px
Insigniacaption:	Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
Flagsize:	200
Flagborder:	yes
Incumbent:	Matthew Lodge
Incumbentsince:	August 2021
Style:	His Excellency
Residence:	Athens
Appointer:	King Charles III
Inaugural:	Edward Dawkins First Minister Plenipotentiary
Formation:	1833 Minister Plenipotentiary 1862 Envoy Extraordinary 1943 Ambassador Extraordinary
Website:	UK and Greece

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

The modern Greek state (then the Kingdom of Greece) was established in 1832 at the London Conference of 1832 and internationally recognised in the same year by the Treaty of Constantinople, in which Greece secured full independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Besides the embassy in Athens, the UK government is represented by vice-consulates on the islands of Corfu, Crete and Rhodes, and by an honorary vice consulate on Zakynthos.^[1]

Heads of Mission

Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Greece

1833–1835: Edward Dawkins^[2] ^[3]
1835–1849: Sir Edmund Lyons, Bt^[2]
1849–1862: Sir Thomas Wyse^[2]

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Greece

1862–1864: Peter Scarlett
1864–1872: Hon. Edward Erskine
1872–1877: Hon. William Stuart
1877–1881: Edwin Corbett
- 1881–1884: Clare Ford 1884–1888: Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt
1888–1892: Hon. Edmund Monson
1892–1903: Edwin Egerton
1903–1917: Sir Francis Elliot
1917–1921: Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville
1921–1922: Francis Lindley^[4]

Break in diplomatic relations – see 1922 in Greece

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Hellenic Republic

1924–1926: Sir Milne Cheetham
1926–1929: Sir Percy Loraine, Bt
1929–1933: Hon. Patrick Ramsay
1933–1939: Sir Sydney Waterlow
1939–1943: Michael Palairet

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

1943–1946: Sir Reginald Leeper
1946–1951: Sir Clifford Norton
1951–1957: Sir Charles Peake
1957–1961: Sir Roger Allen
1962–1967: Sir Ralph Murray
1967–1971: Sir Michael Stewart
1971–1974: Sir Robin Hooper
1974–1978: Sir Brooks Richards
1978–1982: Sir Iain Sutherland
1982–1985: Sir Peregrine Rhodes
1985–1989: Sir Jeremy Thomas
1989–1993: Sir David Miers
1993–1996: Oliver Miles
1996–1999: Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith
1999–2004: Sir David Madden
2004–2008: Sir Simon Gass^[5]
2008–2013: David Landsman
2013–2016: John Kittmer^[6]

2017–2021: Kate Smith^[7] ^[8]
2021–: Matthew Lodge^[9]

External links

UK and Greece, gov.uk

Notes and References

Web site: UK and Greece . gov.uk . 10 January 2017.
Haydn, Joseph, The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire (1851)
Jones, Raymond (1983) The British Diplomatic Service, 1815-1914, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, p.198–199
Book: Stillwell, Stephen Joseph . Anglo-Turkish Relations in the Interwar Era . snippet view . 2010-02-21 . Volume 73 of Studies in British History . 2003 . Edwin Mellen Press . Lewiston, NY . 978-0-7734-6776-7 . 51553133 . 182.
Web site: Our Ambassador . British Embassy Greece . https://web.archive.org/web/20081204035236/http://ukingreece.fco.gov.uk/en/our-office-in-greece/our-ambassador/ . 4 December 2008.
Web site: John Kittmer's Thirty Great Things About Greece . philhellenes.org . 22 December 2016 . 5 January 2017 . 12 May 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170512152714/http://philhellenes.org/john-kittmers-thirty-great-things-about-greece/ . dead .
Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Greece . Foreign & Commonwealth Office . 1 June 2016.
Web site: Ms Kate Smith CMG, British Ambassador to Greece . gov.uk . 10 January 2017.
Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Greece . Foreign & Commonwealth Office . 8 December 2020.