Envoys to Portugal

• 1800–1802: John Hookham Frere
  John Hookham Frere
  John Hookham Frere PC was an English diplomat and author.Frere was born in London. His father, John Frere, the member of a Suffolk family, had been educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and would have been senior wrangler in 1763 but for the competition of William Paley; his mother, Jane,...
  
  
• 1802–1806: Lord Robert Stephen FitzGerald Minister Plenipotentiary
• 1806: James Earl of Rosslyn
  James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn
  General James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn GCB, PC , known as Sir James Erskine, Bt, between 1765 and 1789 and as Sir James St Clair-Erskine, Bt, between 1789 and 1805, was a Scottish soldier, politician, and Acting Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, on behalf of King George...
  
   and John Earl of St Vincent
  John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
  Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom...
  
  , extraordinary envoys
• 1806–1808: Percy Clinton, Viscount Strangford
  Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
  Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, GCB, GCH was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.-Personal life:He was the son of Lionel Smythe, 5th Viscount Strangford and Mary Eliza Philipse....
  
   Envoy Plenipotentiary, accompanied the king to Brazil
  Brazil
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
  
  

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal

• 1808–1810: John Charles Villiers
  John Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon
  John Charles Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon PC , styled The Honourable until 1824, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....
  
  
• 1810–1814: Sir Charles Stuart
  Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay
  Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay GCB, PC , known as Sir Charles Stuart between 1812 and 1828, was a British diplomat...
  
  
• 1814–1817: Thomas Sydenham
• 1817–1820: Sir 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...
  
  
• 1820–1823: Edward Michael Ward
  Edward Michael Ward
  Edward Michael Ward was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.He was the oldest son of Robert Ward and his first wife Sophia Frances Whaley, third daughter of Richard Chapel Whaley. His younger brother James was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy.Ward served as secretary of legation at Stuttgart from 1814...
  
   (chargé d'affaires)
• 1823–1824: Sir 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...
  
  
• 1824–1827: Sir William à Court
  William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury
  William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury GCB PC , known as Sir William à Court, Bt, from 1817 to 1828, was a British diplomat and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1827–1832: Hon. Sir Frederick Lamb
  Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne
  Frederick James Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne PC, GCB , known as the Lord Beauvale from 1839 to 1848, was a British diplomat....
  
  
• 1832–1833: Rt. Hon. John, Lord Ponsonby
  John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby
  John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, GCB was a longtime British diplomat and politician.-Political career:Ponsonby, eldest son of the 1st Baron Ponsonby, and brother of Sir William Ponsonby , was born about 1770. He served as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Tallow...
  
  
• 1833–1846: Charles Augustus Ellis, Baron Howard de Walden
  Charles Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden
  Charles Augustus Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden and 2nd Baron Seaford , was a British diplomat and politician.-Family:...
  
  
• 1846–1851: George Hamilton Seymour
  George Hamilton Seymour
  Sir George Hamilton Seymour GCB, GCH, PC was a British diplomat.Seymour was the son of Lord George Seymour and Isabella, daughter of Reverend the Honourable William Hamilton. He married the Honourable Gertrude, daughter of General Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, in 1831. They had several children....
  
  
• 1855–1859: Henry Francis Howard
• 1859–1866: Sir Arthur Charles Magenis
• 1866–1867: Sir Augustus Berkeley 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....
  
  
• September–December 1867: Edward Thornton
  Edward Thornton (diplomat)
  Sir Edward Thornton KCB was a prominent British diplomat, who held posts in Latin America, Turkey, Russia, and served for fourteen years as Minister to the United States.-Early career:...
  
  
• 1867–1874: Sir Charles Murray
  Charles Augustus Murray
  Sir Charles Augustus Murray was a British author and diplomat.-Background:Murray was the second son of George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore, and his mother was the daughter of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton...
  
  
• 1874–1876: Hon. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
  Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC was an English statesman and poet...
  
  
• 1876–1881: Robert Morier
• 1881–1884: Sir Charles Lennox Wyke
• 1884–1892: George Glynn Petre
• 1893–1902: Hugh Guion MacDonell
• 1902–1905: Martin Gosselin
• 1905–1911: Francis Hyde Villiers
  Francis Hyde Villiers
  Sir Francis Hyde Villiers was an English civil servant.Youngest son of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Villiers entered the Foreign Office in 1870...
  
  
• 1911–1913: Arthur Henry Hardinge
  Arthur Henry Hardinge
  Sir, ,Arthur Henry Hardinge , G.C.M.G.,1910, K.C.B.,1904, , a fluent speaker of the Spanish and the French languages, was the son of General Hon...
  
  

Ambassadors to Portugal

• 1913–1928: Hon Sir Lancelot Carnegie
  Lancelot Carnegie
  Sir Lancelot Douglas Carnegie, GCVO, KCMG, PC , sometime British Minister and then Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Portugal in 1925, was the second son of the 9th Earl of Southesk, and the eldest son by his second marriage to Lady Susan Murray , eldest daughter of...
  
  
• 1928–1929: Rt. Hon. Sir Colville Adrian de Rune Barclay
• 1929–1931: Hon 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,...
  
  
• 1931–1935: Sir Claud Russell
• 1935–1937: Sir Charles Wingfield
• 1937–1940: Sir Walford Harmood Montague Selby
• 1940–1945: Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell
  Ronald Hugh Campbell
  Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, PC, GCMG was a British diplomat who held several important positions at the Foreign Office including, from July 1939 to 22 June 1940, when the armistice between Germany and France was signed at Compiègne, that of British ambassador to France...
  
  
• 1945–1947: Sir Owen St.Clair O'Malley
• 1947–1955: Sir Nigel Ronald
• 1955–1961: Sir Charles Stirling
• 1961–1966: Sir Archibald Ross
• 1966–1970: Sir Anthony Lambert
• 1970–1974: Sir David Muirhead
• 1974–1976: Hon. Sir Nigel Trench
  Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown
  Nigel Clive Cosby Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown, KCMG was a British diplomat.Trench was the son of son of Clive Newcome Trench and Kathleen Maud Marion McIvor. He was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge...
  
  
• 1976–1981: Hon. Sir John Moran
  John Wilson, 2nd Baron Moran
  Richard John McMoran Moran Wilson, 2nd Baron Moran KCMG , known as John Wilson, is a British soldier and diplomat. He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers in the House of Lords, remaining after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999...
  
   (Lord Moran from 1977)
• 1981–1986: Sir Hugh Campbell Byatt
• 1986–1989: Michael Simpson-Orlebar
• 1989–1993: 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....
  
  
• 1993–1995: Stephen Wall
  Stephen Wall
  Sir Stephen Wall, GCMG, LVO is a retired British diplomat who served as Britain's ambassador to Portugal and Permanent Representative to the European Union.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1995–1999: Roger Westbrook
• 1999–2001: John Holmes
  John Holmes (British diplomat)
  Sir John Holmes, GCVO, KBE, CMG is a British diplomat who is a former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator-Life and career:Holmes was born in Preston, in the north of England...
  
  
• 2001–2004: Dame Glynne Evans
• 2004–2007: John Buck
• 2007–2011: Alexander Ellis
  Alexander Ellis (diplomat)
  Alexander Wykeham Ellis is the Director of Strategy at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, having been British ambassador to Portugal from 2007 to 2010. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1990 and presented his credentials to the President of Portugal on 13 November 2007.- References :...
  
  
• 2011– : Jill Gallard