Below is an ''incomplete'' list of diplomats from the United Kingdom to Sardinia and its predecessor Savoy, specifically Heads of Missions.

Heads of Missions

Ambassadors to Savoy

*1611–1612:

Henry Wotton Sir Henry Wotton (; 30 March 1568 – December 1639) was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. When on a mission to Augsburg, in 1604, he famously said, "An ambassador is an honest gentlema ...

*1614–1615: Sir Albertus Morton *1615–1624: Sir Isaac Wake (Resident Agent) *1671–1690: Marquis of St Thomas, John Finch and

Sir William Soame Sir William Soame, 1st Baronet (also Soames) (c.1645–1686) was an English translator and diplomat. Life The Soame family was based in East Anglia, and in the commercial world of London, where Stephen Soame had been Lord Mayor. Soame was his gre ...

The National Archives catalogues
class SP 92. ''The evidence consists of the names of those corresponding with the British Secretaries of States. *1691–1693: Edmund PoleyD. B. Horn, ''British Diplomatic Representatives 1689–1789'' (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932) *1693–1694: Dr

William Aglionby William Aglionby (c. 1642–1705) was an English physician, known also as an art historian, translator and diplomat. Life It has been inferred that he was the son of George Aglionby, who was tutor to William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire fro ...

*1693–1704: The Earl of Galway (absent from 1696) (Viscount Galway until 1697) *1699 and 1703–1706: Richard Hill *1706: Paul Methuen *1706–1713:

John Chetwynd John Chetwynd (1643 – 9 December 1702), of Rudge, near Sandon, Staffordshire was an English Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of John Chetwynd of Rudge. He was Member of Parliament for Stafford from 1689 to 1695, and again in 1701 ...

, later Viscount Chetwynd. **1708–1713: Maj. Gen.

Francis Palmes Lieutenant-General Francis Palmes MP (died 1719) was a noted favourite general of the Duke of Marlborough. He served in Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse and Hugh Wyndham's Regiment of Carabiniers, eventually rising to become lieutenant-col ...

*1710–1713: Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterbrough ''Special Mission'' 1710–1711; ''Minister Plenipotentiary'' 1712; ''Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary'' 1713 *1714: George St. John (died 1716 at Venice) *1713–1719: J. Payne, James Cockburn ''In 1720, Savoy acquired the island of

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

, and was subsequently known as the

Kingdom of Sardinia The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom of Savoy-S ...

''.

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary

*1719–1725: John Molesworth *1726–1727: John Hedges ''Envoy Extraordinary'' *1728–1732: Edmund Allen ''in charge'' 1727–1728; ''Secretary'' 1728–1734 *1731–1736: The Earl of Essex ''Minister Plenipotentiary'' 1731–1732; Ambassador 1732–1736 *1736–1749:

Arthur Villettes Arthur Villettes was a Kingdom of Great Britain, British diplomat who played an important role in diplomatic negotiations of the 18th century often serving as an envoy of the long-standing controller of British foreign policy the Thomas Pelham-H ...

''Resident'' **1747: Lieut-Gen. Thomas Wentworth ''Special Mission'' *1749–1755:

William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, KG, PC (17 September 1717 O.S. – 29 September 1781) was a British courtier, diplomat and statesman of Anglo-Dutch descent. He occupied senior ambassadorial posts at Madrid and Paris, ...

*1755–1758: The Earl of Bristol ''Envoy Extraordinary'' *1758–1761: James Mackenzie ''Envoy Extraordinary'' 1758–1760; then ''Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary''Haydn, Joseph - ''The Book of Dignities'' (1851), 82. *1761–1768:

George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers (1 May 1721 – 7 May 1803) was an English diplomat and politician. Background and education He was born in Geneva, the eldest son of George Pitt of Stratfieldsaye (today rendered Stratfield Saye), Hampshire, an ...

*1768–1779: William Lynch ''Envoy Extraordinary'' 1768–1770; then ''Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary'' *1779–1783: John Stuart, Viscount Mountstuart *1783–1797: Hon. John Hampden-Trevor ''Envoy Extraordinary'' 1783–1789; then ''Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary''S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, ''British Diplomatic Representatives 1789–1852'' (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934). *1798–1799: ''No representation due to the French occupation of

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

'' *1799–1806: Thomas Jackson *''Diplomatic relations suspended 1806–1808'' *1807–1824: Hon. William Hill *1824–1840:

Augustus Foster Sir Augustus John Foster, 1st Baronet, (1 or 4 December 1780 – 1 August 1848) was a British diplomat and politician. Born into a notable British family, Foster served in a variety of diplomatic functions in continental Europe and the United ...

*1840–1851: Hon. Ralph Abercromby *1852–1860: James Hudson

References

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