List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Netherlands

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


UK Ambassador
to the Netherlands
since October 2020
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
British Embassy, The Hague
StyleHer Excellency
Reports toSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
SeatThe Hague, Netherlands
AppointerThe Crown
on advice of the Prime Minister
Term lengthAt His Majesty's pleasure
WebsiteBritish Embassy – The Hague
British Embassy, The Hague

Since the formation in 1997 of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is located in The Hague, the British Ambassador to the Netherlands has also been the UK's Permanent Representative to the OPCW, assisted by a Chemical Weapons team at the Embassy.[1]

Besides the embassy in The Hague, the UK also maintains a consulate general in Amsterdam.[2]

List of heads of mission

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Envoys to the Prince of Orange

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  • 1575−1578: Daniel Rogers Agent and Special agent 1578–1579
    • 1575−1576: Robert Corbet Special Ambassador
    • 1577: Philip Sidney Special Ambassador
  • 1577−1579: William Davison Resident agent; Special Ambassador 1584–1585; English Councillor 1585−1586
  • 1585−1586: Henry Killigrew and Dr Bartholomew Clerke English Councillors on the Dutch Council of State
  • 1586−1587: Thomas Wilkes Special Ambassador then English Councillor on the Dutch Council of State; also 1578, 1582, and 1590
  • 1587−1589: Henry Killigrew English Councillor on the Dutch Council of State
  • 1588−1593: Thomas Bodley English Councillor on the Dutch Council of State; again 1594−1596
  • 1593−1602: George Gilpin English Councillor on the Dutch Council of State

Ambassadors to the United Provinces

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No representation due to the Third Anglo-Dutch War 1672–1674[3]

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the United Provinces

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Ambassadors to the United Provinces

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Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the United Provinces

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No representation due to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War 1780–1784[4]

Diplomatic Relations suspended 1795–1802

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Batavian Republic

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Diplomatic Relations suspended 1803–1813

Under the Treaty of Vienna in 1815, the northern and southern Netherlands were united into the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The United Kingdom of the Netherlands was dissolved by the secession of the Southern Netherlands in the Belgian Revolution

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands

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Ambassadors to the Netherlands

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Chemical Weapons team – British Embassy The Hague
  2. ^ "British Consulate General Amsterdam". gov.uk. Archived from the original on 14 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Gary M. Bell, A handlist of British diplomatic representatives 1509-1688 (Royal Historical Society, Guides and handbooks, 16, 1990).
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)
  5. ^ London Gazette 5528
  6. ^ Repertoria vertegenwoordigers in Nederland en in het buitenland 1584-1810; p. 101
  7. ^ William Carr, ‘Trevor, Robert Hampden-, first Viscount Hampden (1706–1783)’, rev. Martyn J. Powell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008) [1], accessed 10 Aug 2008.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s J. Haydn, Book of Dignities, 79
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Previous ambassadors to the Netherlands". Archived from the original on 22 March 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
  11. ^ "NICHOLS, Sir Philip Bouverie Bowyer". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
  12. ^ "BUTLER, Sir Nevile Montagu". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
  13. ^ "GARRAN, Sir (Isham) Peter". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
  14. ^ Sir Richard Sykes was murdered by IRA gunmen whilst ambassador
  15. ^ "No. 49583". The London Gazette. 31 December 1983. p. 4.
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