This is a list of diplomats of the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire.
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The first ambassador from England to the Ottoman Empire or Porte was appointed in 1583 under the reign of Elizabeth I.
- 1799-1803: Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
- 1803 (Jan-May): Alexander Straton (minister plenipotentiary)[3]
- 1803-1804: William Drummond
- 1804-1807: Charles Arbuthnot
- 1807-1809 Sir Arthur Paget[4]
- 1808 and 1809: Sir Robert Adair special mission in 1808, Ambassador in 1809
- 1809-1812: Stratford Canning (chargé d'affaires in the absence of an ambassador during the Napoleonic Wars)
- 1812-1820: Sir Robert Liston (his second term)
- March–August 1820 Bartholomew Frere - minister plenipotentiary
- 1820-1824: Percy Clinton, Viscount Strangford
- 1824-1825: William Turner - minister plenipotentiary
- 1825-1827: Stratford Canning (again)
- 1827-1832: (British Embassy was withdrawn following the Battle of Navarino), during this period Sir Robert Gordon was envoy extraordinary and John Hobart Caradoc led a special mission to Greece and Egypt. Canning returned for a period in 1831-32 for the conferences to determine the borders of Greece, with John Henry Mandeville as minister-plenipotentiary.
- 1832-1841: John, Lord Ponsonby
- Mar-Oct 1841: Charles Bankhead minister-plenipotentiary
- 1841-1858: Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (again) with Henry Richard Charles Wellesley as minister-plenipotentiary in 1845
- 1858-1865: Sir Henry Bulwer
- 1865-1867: Richard Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons
- 1867-1877: Sir Henry Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
- 1877-1880: Sir Henry Layard
- May 1880: George Joachim Goschen (special ambassador)
- 1881-1884: Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin
- 1884-1886: Sir Edward Thornton
- 1886-1891: Sir William White
- 1891-1893: Sir Clare Ford
- 1893-1898: Sir Philip Currie
- 1898-1908: Sir Nicholas O'Conor-Don
- Apr–Jul 1908: Sir George Head Barclay
- 1908-1913: Sir Gerard Lowther, 1st Baronet
- 1913-1914: Sir Louis Mallet
- 1914-1918: no diplomatic relations due to World War I
- 1918-1919: Somerset Gough-Calthorpe (British High Commissioner), also Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet
- 1919-1920: John de Robeck (British High Commissioner), also Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet
- 1920-1923: Sir Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet (British High Commissioner at Constantinople). 1923-1924: British representative to Turkey.
From 1925 onwards, following the formation of the Republic of Turkey, see: List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Turkey
D. B. Horn, British Diplomatic Representatives 1689-1789 (Camden 3rd Ser. 46, 1932)
Alfred C. Wood, A History of the Levant Company, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1935, pp. 183-184.
J. M. Rigg, Paget, Sir Arthur (1771–1840), H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008), accessed 30 Nov 2008.