The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Norway is the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

's foremost

diplomatic representative Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of states (such as leaders and diplomats) intended to influence events in the international system.Ronald Peter Barston, ''Modern diplomacy'', Pearson Education, 2006, p. 1 ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

, and head of the UK's

diplomatic mission A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...

in Norway. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway''. Norway and the United Kingdom have exchanged diplomats since Norway became independent, when Sir Arthur Herbert was appointed British Minister to Norway on 27 October 1905. England, and later the United Kingdom, has had a diplomatic and/or consular representation in Norway at least since the 17th century.

List of heads of mission

Ministers to Norway

*1905–1910: Sir Arthur Herbert, G.C.V.O. *1911–1923: Sir Mansfeldt Findlay, G.B.E., K.C.M.G. *1923–1929: Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Lindley, G.C.M.G., C.B., C.B.E. *1929–1934: Sir Charles Wingfield, K.C.M.G. *1934–1942: Sir Cecil Dormer, K.C.M.G.

Ambassador to the Norwegian Government in Exile

*1942–1945: Sir Laurence Collier, K.C.M.G.

Ambassadors to Norway

*1945–1951: Sir Laurence Collier, K.C.M.G. *1951–1955: Sir Michael Wright, G.C.M.G. *1955–1960: Sir Peter Scarlett, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O. *1961–1962: Sir John Walker, K.C.M.G. *1963–1965: Sir Patrick Hancock, G.C.M.G. *1965–1968: Sir Ian Dixon Scott, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.I.E. *1968–1972:

Frank Brenchley Thomas Frank Brenchley CMG (9 April 1918 – 7 July 2011) was a British diplomat. Career Frank Brenchley was educated at Sir William Turner's School, Coatham, North Yorkshire, and Merton College, Oxford. He served with the Royal Corps of Si ...

, C.M.G. *1972–1975: Ralph Selby, C.M.G. *1975–1977: Sir Peter Scott, K.B.E., C.M.G. *1978–1980: Sir Archie Lamb, K.B.E., C.M.G., D.F.C. *1981–1983: Dame Gillian Brown, D.C.V.O., C.M.G. *1983–1987: Sir

William Bentley William Bentley (June 22, 1759, Boston, Massachusetts – December 29, 1819, Salem, Massachusetts) was an American Unitarian minister, scholar, columnist, and diarist. He was a polymath who possessed the second best library in the United States ...

, K.C.M.G. *1987–1990: Sir John Robson, K.C.M.G. *1990–1994: Sir

David Ratford Sir David John Edward Ratford is a retired British diplomat and translator. Early life David John Edward Ratford was born on 22 April 1934 to George Ratford and Lilian Ratford (). Ratford was educated at Whitgift Middle School. Ratford att ...

, K.C.M.G., C.V.O. *1994–1998: Mark Elliott, C.M.G. *1998–2002: Sir

Richard Dales Sir Richard Nigel Dales, KCVO, CMG (born 1942) is a retired British diplomat. After attending St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Dales entered the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1964 and was appointed to HM Diplomatic Service in 1972. ...

, K.C.V.O., C.M.G. *2002–2006:

Mariot Leslie Dame Alison Mariot Leslie, (born 25 June 1954), known as Mariot Leslie, is a former British diplomat whose last post was Permanent Representative to NATO. When she was replaced at NATO it was announced that she would retire from the Diplomatic ...

, C.M.G. *2006–2010: David Powell *2010–2014:

Jane Owen Jane Caroline Owen (born ) is a British diplomat. She is the current Governor of the Cayman Islands and the second woman to hold this position. She had previously served as the British ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein and the Britis ...

*2014–2018:

Sarah Gillett Sarah Gillett (born 21 July 1956) is a British former diplomat who was British Ambassador to Norway from July 2014 to 2018. She previously served as Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 2009 to 2013. Early life Gillett is the ...

*2018–: Richard Wood

British consuls in Oslo

*1686–? Daniel Butts, honorary *1834–1844 George Mygind, honorary *1844–? Sir John Rice Crowe (consul-general), honorary *1906-1910 Francis Edward Drummond Hay *1926–1931

Christopher Lintrup Paus Christopher "Kiff" Lintrup Paus (; 6 November 1881 in – 28 May 1963) was a British diplomat, who served at the British Embassy in Oslo for several decades, as commercial counsellor and as the British consul in Oslo and head of the British ...

, C.B.E.

References

External links

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