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.

List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Greece

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.

List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Greece

Heads of Mission

Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Greece

1833–1835: Edward Dawkins

1835–1849: Sir Edmund Lyons, Bt

1849–1862: Sir Thomas Wyse

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

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

2008–2013: David Landsman

2013–2016: John Kittmer

2017–2021: Kate Smith

2021–: Matthew Lodge

References

External links

UK and Greece, gov.uk

Greece

United Kingdom

List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Greece