Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice,was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918,as which he was responsible for the organisation of British efforts to end American neutrality during the First World War.
Arthur Nicolson,1st Baron Carnock,,known as Sir Arthur Nicolson,11th Baronet,from 1899 to 1916,was a British diplomat and politician during the last quarter of the 19th century to the middle of World War I.
Archibald Clark Kerr,1st Baron Inverchapel,,known as Sir Archibald Clark Kerr between 1935 and 1946,was a British diplomat. He served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1942 and 1946 and to the United States between 1946 and 1948.
Sir Peter John Goulden is a British retired diplomat who was Ambassador to Turkey from 1992 until 1995,then Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council and to the Western European Union 1995–2001. Subsequently,he was a member of the Security Commission.
Sir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps was a British diplomat.
Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen was a British diplomat,civil servant and author. He is best remembered as the diplomat whose secrets were stolen by his Kosovar Albanian valet and passed on to Nazi Germany.
Charles David Powell,Baron Powell of Bayswater,is a British diplomat and businessman who served as a key foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s.
Sir Geoffrey Doyne Adams served as the British Ambassador to Egypt from 2018 to 2021,as a member of the British Diplomatic Service. He was Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2013 to 2017.
Sir James Alexander Milne Marjoribanks was a Scottish career diplomat in the British Foreign Service and became British ambassador to the European Economic Community. He presented Britain's application to join the European Community in 1967 and was instrumental in this application becoming successful.
Sir William Goodenough Hayter KCMG was a British diplomat,Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1957,later Warden of New College,Oxford,and author.
Sir John Arthur Pilcher GCMG was a British diplomat,capping a long career with a posting as Her Majesty's ambassador to the Philippines (1959–1963),Austria (1965–1967) and Japan (1967–1972).
Sir George Russell Clerk was a British diplomat and Privy Counsellor who ended his career as Ambassador to France from 1934 to 1937,after seven years as Ambassador to Turkey,one as Ambassador to Belgium and seven as Ambassador to The Czechoslovak Republic. His name is pronounced as if spelt Clark.
Sir Charles Arthur Evelyn Shuckburgh,GCMG,CB,better known as Sir Evelyn Shuckburgh,was a British diplomat. In the 1950s he was at the heart of affairs in London,as Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary,Anthony Eden,and from 1954 to 1956 as Assistant Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office in charge of Middle East affairs. In 1986 he published the diaries he wrote during the Suez Crisis,titled Descent to Suez.
Sir Stephen Wall is a retired British diplomat who served as Britain's ambassador to Portugal and Permanent Representative to the European Union.
Sir John Anthony Cecil Tilley was a British diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Brazil from 1921 to 1925,and Ambassador to Japan from 1926 to 1931.
Sir Francis Oswald Lindley was a British diplomat who was HM Consul-General in Russia in 1919,British High Commissioner in Vienna 1919–1920,Ambassador to Austria 1920–1921,Ambassador to Greece 1922–1923,Minister in Oslo 1923–1929,Ambassador to Portugal 1929–1931,and finally Ambassador to Japan 1931–1934. Lindley was described as "a rather tough old character in some respects and very outspoken in his likes and dislikes."
Sir Nicholas Walker Browne,KBE,CMG was a British diplomat. He served as Ambassador to Iran from 1999 to 2002 and Ambassador to Denmark from 2003 to 2006.
Georgina Susan Butler is a retired British diplomat. After postings at the Foreign Office,UKREP in Brussels,the European Commission,and in Washington D.C.,she served as British Ambassador to Costa Rica and to Nicaragua.
