The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Denmark is the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

's foremost diplomatic representative

Diplomat

A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

 in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission

Diplomatic mission

A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organisation present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation in the receiving state...

 in Denmark. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark.

Until 1947, the British representative in Denmark held the rank of Minister, and the Danish representative in the UK the corresponding rank of Gesandt. In 1947, Denmark and the United Kingdom upgraded their diplomatic representations to each other and both heads of mission have since held the rank of Ambassador.

For Ambassadors from the Court of St James's to Denmark before 1707 see List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to Denmark. For Ambassadors from 1707 to 1800, see List of ambassadors of Great Britain to Denmark.

Scotland

• 1491: James Ogilvy, 1st Lord Ogilvy of Airlie

• 1596: James Ogilvy, 5th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie

Envoys Extraordinary of Great Britain

• 1706-1715 Daniel Pulteney
  Daniel Pulteney
  Daniel Pulteney was an English government official and Member of Parliament.Pulteney was the son of John Pulteney , MP for Hastings and Commissioner of Customs, and Lucy Colville. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1699.He was one of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations...
  
  
• 1715-1721: Alexander Hume-Campbell
  Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont
  Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont PC , was a Scottish nobleman, politician and judge.Third but eldest surviving son of Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, by his spouse Grisel , daughter of Sir Thomas Ker of Cavers, he assumed the additional surname of Campbell upon his marriage in...
  
  , but Ambassador 1720-1721
• 1721-1729: John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy
  John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
  John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland KB , styled Lord Glenorchy from 1716 until 1752, was a Scottish nobleman, diplomat and politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
  • 1727: Admiral Sir John Norris
  • 1729: Brigadier Richard Sutton Special military mission
• 1730–1768: Walter Titley Secretary in charge of affairs 1729-30; Minister Resident 1730-1739; then Envoy Extraordinary
  • 1763—1765: Dudley Alexander Sydney Cosby Minister Resident
• 1766–1771: Robert Gunning Minister Resident 1766; then Envoy Extraordinary
• 1771–1772: Robert Murray Keith (the younger)
  Robert Murray Keith (the younger)
  Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Murray Keith KB was a British soldier and diplomat.He was born in Edinburgh, the eldest son of Robert Murray Keith and his wife daughter of Sir William Cunningham, 2nd baronet, of Caprington...
  
  
• 1772–1773: Ralph Woodford
• 1773—1779: Daniel de Laval Minister Resident 1774-1778; then Envoy Extraordinary
• 1779–1783: Morton Eden
  Morton Eden, 1st Baron Henley
  Morton Frederick Eden, 1st Baron Henley GCB, PC, FRS was a British diplomat.Eden was a younger son of Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1776–79, he was Minister to Bavaria, then to Copenhagen 1779–82, Dresden 1783–91, Berlin...
  
  
• 1783–1789: Hugh Elliot
  Hugh Elliot
  Hugh Elliot was a British diplomat and then a colonial governor.- Education and early career :Hugh Elliot was born in 1752, the second son of Sir Gilbert Elliot, and the younger brother of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto...
  
  
• 1789—1790: J. Johnstone
• 1790: George Hammond
  George Hammond (diplomat)
  George Hammond was a British diplomat and the first British envoy to the United States from 1791 to 1795.-Early career:Hammond came from East Riding of Yorkshire, enjoyed a liberal education, and was a Master of Arts and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford...
  
   Chargé d'Affaires
• 1790—1792: Francis Drake
  Francis Drake (diplomat)
  Francis Drake , of Yardbury and Wells, was a British diplomat, holding positions at Genoa and Munich during the Napoleonic Wars.Francis Drake was the son of Rev. Francis Drake, Vicar of Seaton and Beer...
  
   Chargé d'Affaires
• 1792–1794: Daniel Hailes
  Daniel Hailes
  Daniel Hailes was a British diplomat. He was the British signatory to the Anglo-Dutch treaty ending the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in 1783, before serving as a secretary to British embassy in France in 1784-1787, envoy to Poland in 1788-1791, envoy extraordinary to Denmark from 1791, envoy...
  
  
• 1794—1796: James Craufurd Chargé d'Affaires
• 1796–1800: Lord Robert FitzGerald
  • 1800: Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth
    Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth
    Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth GCB, PC , known as The Lord Whitworth between 1800 and 1813 and as The Viscount Whitworth between 1813 and 1815, was a British diplomat and politician.-Early years:...
    
     Plenipotentiary on Extraordinary Mission
• 1800—1801: William Drumond
  William Drummond of Logiealmond
  Sir William Drummond of Logiealmond was a Scottish diplomat and Member of Parliament, poet and philosopher. His book Academical Questions is arguably important in the development of the ideas of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.-Career:In 1795 he was MP for St. Mawes, and in the...
  
   Chargé d'Affaires
  • 1801: Nicholas Vansittart Plenipotentiary

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom

1801-1802: No diplomatic relations

• 1801-1802: Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens
  Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St Helens
  Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens PC was a British diplomat and a friend of explorer George Vancouver, who named Mount St...
  
   Plenipotentiary
• 1802-1805: Francis Hill Chargé d'Affaires
  • 1803—1804: Robert Liston
    Robert Liston (diplomat)
    Sir Robert Liston, GCB, PC was a British diplomat and ambassador to several countries.-Biography:Liston was born in Kirkliston, Scotland, went on to Edinburgh University, and then tutored the sons of the Earl of Minto...
    
     (special mission)
• 1805–1807: Benjamin Garlike
  Benjamin Garlike
  Benjamin Garlike was a British diplomat, ambassador to Denmark and Prussia.As a young man Garlike received the patronage of Lord Auckland, accompanying him to Spain in 1788 and The Hague in 1789, where he worked deciphering government dispatches...
  
  
• 1807: Brooke Taylor
  Brooke Taylor
  Brooke Taylor is a politician in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was the Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly for Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley from 1993 to 2009. Prior to June 2009 he was Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal in the Executive Council of Nova...
  
   ad interim
• 1807: Francis James Jackson ad interim
• 1807: Anthony Merry
  Anthony Merry
  -Biography:The son of a London wine merchant, Anthony Merry served in various diplomatic posts in Europe between 1783 and 1803, holding mostly consular positions. He was Chargé d'Affaires in Madrid in 1796 and again in Copenhagen about 1799, and Minister ad interim in Paris in 1802.Merry was...
  
  
• 1807—1814: No diplomatic relations
• 1813: Alexander Hope and Edward Thornton
  Edward Thornton (1766–1852)
  Sir Edward Thornton was a British diplomat, and father of Sir Edward Thornton .He was born in London, the third son of an innkeeper, but orphaned at an early age. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and at Pembroke College, Cambridge...
  
   Plenipotentiaries
• 1813–1814: Edward Thornton
  Edward Thornton (1766–1852)
  Sir Edward Thornton was a British diplomat, and father of Sir Edward Thornton .He was born in London, the third son of an innkeeper, but orphaned at an early age. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and at Pembroke College, Cambridge...
  
   Plenipotentiary
• 1814–1824: Augustus Foster
• 1824–1853: Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn
  Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn
  Henry Watkins William-Wynn was a British MP in the early 19th century. William-Wynn sat for Midhurst from January to May 1807....
  
  
• 1852-1853: Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield
  Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield
  Henry North Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield , styled Viscount Pevensey until 1876, was an English Conservative politician and patron of cricket....
  
   (attaché)

• 1858: Sir Henry Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
• 1859-1866: Augustus Paget
  Augustus Berkeley Paget
  Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget GCB was the son of Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Paget and Lady Augusta Fane, nephew of General Sir Edward Paget and grandson of The 1st Earl of Uxbridge....
  
  

• 1863: John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse
  John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley
  John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley KG , PC , known as the Lord Wodehouse from 1846 to 1866, was a British Liberal politician...
  
  

• 1866-1869: Hugh MacDonell

• 1881-1884: Hon. Hussey Vivian
  Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian
  Hussey Crespigny Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian, GCMG, CB, DL, FRGS was a British diplomat.Born at Connaught Place, London, Vivian was the eldest son of Charles Vivian, 2nd Baron Vivian and was educated at Eton College...
  
  
• 1884-1888: Hon. Edmund Monson
  Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edmund John Monson, 1st Baronet GCMG, PC was a British diplomat.-Background and education:Monson was born at Seal, Kent the third son of William John Monson, 6th Baron Monson...
  
  
• 1888-1893: Hugh MacDonell
• 1893-1898: Sir Charles Stewart Scott
• 1898–1900: Edmund Fane
• 1900–1905: Edward Goschen
• 1910–1912: Sir William Conyngham Greene
• 1913–1916: Sir Henry Lowther
• 1916–1918: Ralph Spencer Paget
• 1919–1921: Sir Charles Marling
• 1921–1926: Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville
  Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville
  Granville George Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville GCMG GCVO PC was a British diplomat.The eldest son of the 2nd Earl Granville, Leveson-Gower was educated at Eton and joined the diplomatic service in 1893 as an attaché to Berlin...
  
  
• 1926–1928: Sir Milne Cheetham
  Milne Cheetham
  Sir Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham, KCMG was a British diplomat.Born in Preston, he was educated at Rossall School, from which he won a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford. He studied classics at Oxford, after which he entered the diplomatic service...
  
  
• 1928–1933: Thomas Hohler
• 1933–1935: Hugh Gurney
• 1935–1939: Hon. Sir Patrick Ramsay
• 1939–1940: Charles Howard Smith (expelled with his staff by the Germans on 9 April 1940)

• 1945–1947: Sir Alec Randall

Ambassadors

• 1947–1952: Sir Alec Randall
• 1952–1956: Sir Eric Berthoud
  Eric Berthoud
  Sir Eric Alfred Berthoud KCMG, was an oil man and diplomat who served as the British ambassador to Denmark and Poland .-Early life and education:...
  
  
• 1956–1960: Sir Roderick Barclay
• 1960–1962: Sir William Montagu-Pollock, Bt.
• 1962–1966: Sir John Henniker-Major
  John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker
  John Patrick Edward Chandos Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker KCMG CVO MC , known as Sir John Henniker-Major from 1965 to 1980, was a British peer, civil servant and diplomat....
  
  
• 1966–1969: Oliver Wright
  Oliver Wright
  Sir John Oliver Wright, GCMG, GCVO, DSC was a British diplomat.- Early life :Wright was born on 6 March 1921. He was educated at Solihull School and later Christ's College, Cambridge although his studies were interrupted by World War II. He served in the Royal Naval Reserve and was awarded the...
  
  
• 1969–1971: Sir Murray MacLehose
• 1971–1976: Sir Andrew Stark
• 1976–1983: Dame Anne Warburton
• 1983–1986: Sir James Mellon
• 1986–1988: Peter Unwin
• 1989–1993: Nigel Williams
• 1993–1996: Hugh James Arbuthnott
  Hugh James Arbuthnott
  Hugh James Arbuthnott, CMG. is a retired British diplomat.Son of James Gordon Arbuthnott and Margaret Georgiana, née Hyde. Married to Vanessa Rose Dyer, has three sons, Dominic Hugh, Justin Edward James , and Giles Sebastian....
  
  
• 1996-1999: Andrew P. F. Bache
• 1999–2003: Philip Astley
• 2003–2006: Sir Nicholas Browne
• 2006–2008: David Frost
  David Frost (British diplomat)
  David George Hamilton Frost, CMG , is a British diplomat. He is currently on loan at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills where he is Director for Europe, Trade, and International Affairs....
  
  
• 2008– : Nicholas Archer

External links

• British Ambassador to Denmark