List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Hanover

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The following is a list of Diplomats from the United Kingdom (and predecessors) to the Electorate and then Kingdom of Hanover:

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Heads of Mission

To the Duke of Brunswick-Lauenberg

1689–1692: Sir William Dutton Colt [1] also to Hesse-Cassel and Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

To the Elector of Hanover and others

The same diplomat was commonly accredited to the Elector, to the Duke of Celle and The Electress Sophia, often also to the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover

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  1. 1 2 J. D. Davies, 'Colt, Sir William Dutton (bap. 1646, d. 1693)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 , accessed 26 April 2009
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)
  3. 1 2 The National Archives, class SP 81/159-164.
  4. ↑ J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 79.
  5. ↑ S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934), 64.
  6. ↑ "No. 19608". The London Gazette . 17 April 1838. p. 912.
  7. ↑ "British Missions to Germany :: German Historical Institute London (GHIL)". Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "No. 21974". The London Gazette . 3 March 1857. p. 866.
  9. ↑ "No. 22121". The London Gazette . 2 April 1858. p. 1687.
  10. ↑ "No. 22326". The London Gazette . 15 November 1859. p. 4077.
  11. ↑ "No. 23061". The London Gazette . 19 January 1866. p. 322.
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