The following is a list of Diplomats from the United Kingdom (and predecessors) to the Electorate and then Kingdom of Hanover:
Heads of Mission
To the Duke of Brunswick-Lauenberg
1689–1692: Sir William Dutton Colt also to Hesse-Cassel and Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
To the Elector of Hanover and others The same diplomat was commonly accredited to the Elector, to the Duke of Celle and The Electress Sophia, often also to the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1692–1693: Sir William Dutton ColtJ. D. Davies, 'Colt, Sir William Dutton (bap. 1646, d. 1693)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 , accessed 26 April 2009 1693–1703: James Cressett Envoy ExtraordinaryD. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)The National Archives, class SP 81/159-164. 1701: Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun and Gregory King the Lancaster Herald Special Mission 1702–1703: Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea 1703–1705: Edmund Poley 1705–1709: Brigadier Emanuel Howe 1706: Charles Montagu, Baron Halifax, Lionel Sackville, Earl of Dorset, John Vanbrugh, Joseph Addison, and Peter Falaiseau (Pierre de Falaiseau)Special Mission 1708: Maj.-Gen. Francis Palmes Special Mission 1709–1714: Isaac d'Alais Chargé d'affaires 1709-1711 then Secretary 1710 and 1711: Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers Special Missions 1712 and 1714: Thomas Harley Special Missions 1714: Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon Envoy Extraordinary 1714–1837: No mission, because the Elector (later King) of Hanover was also King of Great Britain.
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover 1838–1856: The Hon. John Duncan BlighJ. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 79.S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934), 64. 1857–1858: Sir John Crampton 1858/1859: George John Robert Gordon 1859–1866: Henry Francis Howard 1866: Sir Charles Lennox Wyke
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