The Ambassador of Great Britain to Denmark was the foremost diplomatic representative in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 (also referred to as the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway

Denmark–Norway

Denmark–Norway is the historiographical name for a former political entity consisting of the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway, including the originally Norwegian dependencies of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands...

) of the Kingdom of Great Britain

Kingdom of Great Britain

The former Kingdom of Great Britain, sometimes described as the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain', That the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall upon the 1st May next ensuing the date hereof, and forever after, be United into One Kingdom by the Name of GREAT BRITAIN. was a sovereign...

, a European state created by the Treaty of Union

Treaty of Union

The Treaty of Union is the name given to the agreement that led to the creation of the united kingdom of Great Britain, the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which took effect on 1 May 1707...

 of 1707, in charge of the British diplomatic mission to Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

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For Ambassadors from the Court of St James's to Denmark before 1707 see List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to Denmark. For Ambassadors after 1800, see List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Denmark.

Envoys Extraordinary of Great Britain to Denmark

• 1706—1715 Daniel Pulteney
  Daniel Pulteney
  Daniel Pulteney was an English government official and Member of Parliament.Pulteney was the son of John Pulteney , MP for Hastings and Commissioner of Customs, and Lucy Colville. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1699.He was one of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations...
  
  
• 1715—1721: Alexander Hume-Campbell
  Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont
  Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont PC , was a Scottish nobleman, politician and judge.Third but eldest surviving son of Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, by his spouse Grisel , daughter of Sir Thomas Ker of Cavers, he assumed the additional surname of Campbell upon his marriage in...
  
  , but Ambassador 1720—1721
• 1721—1729: John Campbell, Lord Glenorchy
  John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
  John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland KB , styled Lord Glenorchy from 1716 until 1752, was a Scottish nobleman, diplomat and politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
  • 1727: Admiral Sir John Norris
  • 1729: Brigadier Richard Sutton Special military mission
• 1730—1768: Walter Titley Secretary in charge of affairs 1729-30; Minister Resident 1730—1739; then Envoy Extraordinary
  • 1763—1765: Dudley Alexander Sydney Cosby Minister Resident
• 1766—1771: Robert Gunning Minister Resident 1766; then Envoy Extraordinary
• 1771—1772: Robert Murray Keith (the younger)
  Robert Murray Keith (the younger)
  Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Murray Keith KB was a British soldier and diplomat.He was born in Edinburgh, the eldest son of Robert Murray Keith and his wife daughter of Sir William Cunningham, 2nd baronet, of Caprington...
  
  
• 1772—1773: Ralph Woodford
• 1773—1779: Daniel de Laval Minister Resident 1774—1778; then Envoy Extraordinary
• 1779—1783: Morton Eden
  Morton Eden, 1st Baron Henley
  Morton Frederick Eden, 1st Baron Henley GCB, PC, FRS was a British diplomat.Eden was a younger son of Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1776–79, he was Minister to Bavaria, then to Copenhagen 1779–82, Dresden 1783–91, Berlin...
  
  
• 1783—1789: Hugh Elliot
  Hugh Elliot
  Hugh Elliot was a British diplomat and then a colonial governor.- Education and early career :Hugh Elliot was born in 1752, the second son of Sir Gilbert Elliot, and the younger brother of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto...
  
  
• 1789—1790: J. Johnstone
• 1790: George Hammond
  George Hammond (diplomat)
  George Hammond was a British diplomat and the first British envoy to the United States from 1791 to 1795.-Early career:Hammond came from East Riding of Yorkshire, enjoyed a liberal education, and was a Master of Arts and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford...
  
   Chargé d'Affaires
• 1790—1792: Francis Drake
  Francis Drake (diplomat)
  Francis Drake , of Yardbury and Wells, was a British diplomat, holding positions at Genoa and Munich during the Napoleonic Wars.Francis Drake was the son of Rev. Francis Drake, Vicar of Seaton and Beer...
  
   Chargé d'Affaires
• 1792—1794: Daniel Hailes
  Daniel Hailes
  Daniel Hailes was a British diplomat. He was the British signatory to the Anglo-Dutch treaty ending the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in 1783, before serving as a secretary to British embassy in France in 1784-1787, envoy to Poland in 1788-1791, envoy extraordinary to Denmark from 1791, envoy...
  
  
• 1794—1796: James Craufurd Chargé d'Affaires
• 1796—1800: Lord Robert FitzGerald
  • 1800: Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth
    Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth
    Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth GCB, PC , known as The Lord Whitworth between 1800 and 1813 and as The Viscount Whitworth between 1813 and 1815, was a British diplomat and politician.-Early years:...
    
     Plenipotentiary on Extraordinary Mission
• 1800—1801: William Drumond
  William Drummond of Logiealmond
  Sir William Drummond of Logiealmond was a Scottish diplomat and Member of Parliament, poet and philosopher. His book Academical Questions is arguably important in the development of the ideas of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.-Career:In 1795 he was MP for St. Mawes, and in the...
  
  Chargé d'Affaires