The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Norway 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 Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, 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 Norway. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway. Norway and the United Kingdom have exchanged diplomats since Sir Arthur Herbert

Arthur Herbert

Arthur Herbert was an American jazz drummer.Both of Herbert's parents were of Trinidadian heritage. He worked in a silver and gold refinery as a young man, playing local gigs in New York nightclubs and hotels in his spare time...

 was appointed British Minister to Norway on 27 October 1905

List of heads of mission

Until 1905, Norway was ruled by Swedish kings and had no independent diplomatic missions.

Ministers to Norway

• 1905–1910: Sir Arthur Herbert
  Arthur James Herbert
  General Sir James Arthur Herbert KCB was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Born Arthur James Jones, Herbert was commissioned into the 23rd Regiment of Foot in 1839. Along with other members of his family he changed his surname to Herbert in 1848.He rose through the officer ranks...
  
  

• 1911–1924: Sir Mansfeldt Finlay
• 1923–1929: Sir Francis Lindley
  Francis Oswald Lindley
  Sir Francis Oswald Lindley CB, CBE, PC, KCMG was a British diplomat, HM Consul-General in Russia, 1919, British High Commissioner in Vienna, 1919 to 1920, Ambassador to Austria, 1920 to 1921, Ambassador to Greece, 1922 to 1923, Minister in Oslo, 1923 to 1929; Ambassador to Portugal, 1929 to 1931,...
  
  
• 1929–1935: Sir Charles Wingfield
• 1935–1942: Sir Cecil Dormer
  Cecil Dormer
  Sir Cecil Dormer was the British Minister to Norway between 1934 and 1941. After the German invasion of Norway in April 1940 he joined the Norway's government and King on their move northwards, and followed the government into exile in London in June 1940. He was appointed Ambassador to Poland's...
  
  

Ambassadors to Norway

• 1942–1951: Sir Laurence Collier
  Laurence Collier
  Sir Laurence Collier KCMG was the British ambassador to Norway between 1939 and 1950, including the period when Norway's government was in exile in London during the Second World War....
  
  
• 1951–1955: Sir Michael Wright
• 1955–1961: Sir Peter Scarlett
• 1961–1963: Sir John Walker
• 1963–1965: Sir Patrick Hancock
• 1965–1968: Sir Ian Scott
• 1968–1972: Thomas Frank Brenchley
• 1972–?: Ralph Selby

• 1978–1980: Sir Archie Lamb

• 1981–?: Dame Gillian Brown

• 1987–1990 Sir John Robson
• 1990–1994: David Ratford
• 1994–1998: Mark Elliott
• 1998–2002: Sir Richard Dales
• 2002–2006: Mrs Mariot Leslie, CMG
• 2006–2010: David Powell
• 2010–present: Jane Owen

External links

• British Embassy, Oslo
• Official British representation in Norway