British Embassy, The Hague
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 .
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 [ edit ]
Envoys to the Prince of Orange [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
No representation due to the Third Anglo-Dutch War 1672–1674[3]
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the United Provinces [ edit ]
Ambassadors to the United Provinces [ edit ]
Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the United Provinces [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
Ambassadors to the Netherlands [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Chemical Weapons team – British Embassy The Hague
^ "British Consulate General Amsterdam" . gov.uk . Archived from the original on 14 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2017 .
^ 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).
^ 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)
^ London Gazette 5528
^ Repertoria vertegenwoordigers in Nederland en in het buitenland 1584-1810; p. 101
^ 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.
^ 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
^ 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).
^ 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 .
^ "NICHOLS, Sir Philip Bouverie Bowyer" . Who Was Who . A & C Black. Retrieved 12 October 2008 .
^ "BUTLER, Sir Nevile Montagu" . Who Was Who . A & C Black. Retrieved 12 October 2008 .
^ "GARRAN, Sir (Isham) Peter" . Who Was Who . A & C Black. Retrieved 12 October 2008 .
^ Sir Richard Sykes was murdered by IRA gunmen whilst ambassador
^ "No. 49583" . The London Gazette . 31 December 1983. p. 4.
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