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This is a List of diplomats from the United Kingdom to the Two Sicilies, usually based at
Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...


List of heads of mission

Until 1753, Great Britain appears only to have had consuls at
Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
and
Messina Messina (, also , ) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of more than 219,000 inhabitants in ...
, and no permanent diplomatic mission.The National Archives Catalogue
class SP 93.


Envoys Extraordinary to the Kingdom of Naples and/or the Kingdom of Sicily

* 1753-1764: Sir James Gray, BtJ. Haydn, ''Book of Dignities''(1851), 82-83. * 1764-1800: Sir William Hamilton * 1800-1801: Sir Arthur Paget, also minister plenipotentiary * 1801-1803: William Drummond


Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Naples and/or the Kingdom of Sicily

* 1803-1806:
Hugh Elliot Hugh Elliot (6 April 1752 – 1 December 1830) was a British diplomat and then a colonial governor. Education and early career Hugh Elliot was born on 6April 1752, the second son of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of Minto, Sir Gilbert El ...
* 1806: General Henry Edward Fox * 1806-1809: William Drummond * 1809-1811: William Pitt Amherst, Lord Amherst * 1811-1814: William Cavendish BentinckS. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, ''British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852'' (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934). (Simultaneously held supreme military command in the Mediterranean) ** 1812-1814: Frederick James Lamb ''Accredited but never in fact in charge * 1814–1816: Sir William à Court


Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

* 1816–1822: Sir William à Court * 1822-1825:
William Richard Hamilton William Richard Hamilton, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS, (9 September 1777 – 11 July 1859) was a British antiquarian, traveller and diplomat. Early life Hamilton was born in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London in 1777. He was the son of Rev. An ...
* 1824-1832: William Noel Hill ** 1825: John, Lord Burgersh ''special mission'' * 1832-1833:
Lord Ponsonby Baron Ponsonby may refer to: * Baron Ponsonby (of Imokilly), a hereditary title that was created in 1806 and became extinct in 1866 * Frederick Ponsonby, Baron Ponsonby of Roehampton (born 1958), Labour politician *Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede Ba ...
* 1832-1856: Hon.
William Temple (ambassador) William Temple may refer to: * Sir William Temple (logician) (1555–1627), English Ramist logician and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin * Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628–1699), English diplomat, politician and essayist, employer of Jonat ...
**1842-1845: Sir
Woodbine Parish Sir Woodbine Parish KCH (14 September 1796, London – 16 August 1882, St. Leonards, Sussex) was a British diplomat, traveller and scientist. The son of Woodbine Parish, of Bawburgh Old Hall, Norfolk, a major in the Light Horse Volunteers ...
''Plenipotentiary'' (jointly with Temple) ** 1847: Gilbert, Earl of Minto, ''special mission'' **1847-1848:
Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick, (15 September 1819 – 19 December 1898) was a Scottish polyglot, diplomat and colonial administrator. He served as the British Minister to the United States from 1857 to 1859, Netherla ...
''Chargé d'Affaires''


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