List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Poland

List of heads of mission

Before Partition

Agents

• 1604-1610: Dr William Bruce
• *1609: James Sandilands, 2nd Baron Torphichen Special Ambassador
• 1610-1621: Patrick Gordon
• 1626-1641: Francis Gordon
• Between 1641 and 1698, there seems to have been no continuous diplomatic representation

  Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the King of Poland

• *1629-1630: Sir Thomas Roe Special Ambassador
• *1634-1636: Sir George Douglas
• 1669-1670: Sir Peter Wyche
• 1676-1678: Hon. Laurence Hyde

  Envoys Extraordinary to the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony

• *1698: George Stepney Special Mission
• 1700 on: Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet Resident
• 1702-1707: Dr John Robinson, Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden was resident in Danzig
• 1709-1710: John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
• *1710-1714: George Mackenzie Chargé d'Affaires
• 1711: Charles Whitworth
• *1711 and 1712: The Earl of Peterborough
• 1711-1715: James Scott
• 1715-1718: Sir Richard Vernon, 3rd Baronet
• 1718-1719: Lieut-Gen. Francis Palmes
• *1719: Hugh Boscawen M.P. Special Mission, but did not go
• 1719-1722: James Scott in charge
• *1736-1737: Thomas Robinson At Dresden in 1737
• 1738-1746: Hon. Thomas Villiers
• 1747-1755: Charles Hanbury Williams
• 1756-1761: David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont
• *1761-1762: William Money in charge
• 1763-1778: Thomas Wroughton Resident 1762-1769 then Minister Plenipotentiary

  Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the King of Poland

• 1778-1779: Richard Oakes
• 1779-?: James Hare
• 1782-1784: Viscount Dalrymple
• 1785-1787: Charles Whitworth
• 1788-1791: Daniel Hailes
• 1791-1795: William Gardiner

After World War I

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

• 1919–1920: Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt.
• 1920–1928: Sir William Max-Müller
• 1928–1929: Hon. Sir William Erskine

  Ambassadors

• 1929-1934: Hon. Sir William Erskine
• 1935-1941: Sir Howard William Kennard
• 1941-1943: Cecil Francis Joseph Dormer
• 1943-1945: Sir Owen St.Clair O'Malley
• 1945-1947: Victor Cavendish-Bentinck
• 1947-1950: Donald St Clair Gainer
• 1950-1952: Sir Charles Bateman
• 1952-1954: Sir Francis Shepherd
• 1954-1956: Sir Andrew Noble, Bt.
• 1956-1960: Sir Eric Berthoud
• 1960-1966: Sir George Clutton
• 1966-1969: Sir Thomas Brimelow
• 1969-1972: Sir Nicholas Henderson
• 1972-1974: Frank Brenchley
• 1974-1978: Norman Reddaway
• 1978-1981: Kenneth Robert Comyn Pridham
• 1981-1983: Cynlais James
• 1983-1986: Sir John Morgan
• 1986-1988: Sir Brian Barder
• 1988-1991: Sir Stephen Barrett
• 1991-1996: Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• 1996-1998: Sir Christopher Hum
• 1998-2001: John Malcolm Macgregor
• 2001-2003: Sir Michael Pakenham
• 2003-2007: Charles Crawford
• 2007-2011: Ric Todd
• 2011-2016: Robin Barnett
• 2016-: Jonathan Knott