List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Sweden

Earlier representation

List of heads of mission

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Stockholm

• 1800–1801: Diplomatic relations severed due to Second League of Armed Neutrality
• 1802–1804: Charles Arbuthnot
• 1804–1807: Hon. Henry Pierrepont
• 1807: Alexander Straton
• *1807: Hon. Henry Pierrepont special mission
• 1807–1808: Edward Thornton
• 1808–1809: Anthony Merry
• 1810–1812: Diplomatic relations severed due to Sweden's alliance with France
• *1811: Edward Thornton special mission
• 1812–1817: Edward Thornton
• 1817–1820: Viscount Strangford
• 1820–1823: William Vesey-FitzGerald
• 1823–1832: Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield
• 1832–1833: Lord Howard de Walden
• 1833–1835: Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe
• 1835–1838: Hon. John Duncan Bligh
• 1838–1850: Sir Thomas Cartwright
• *1850: George John Robert Gordon, Chargé d'affaires
• 1851–1853: Sir Edmund Lyons

  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sweden and Norway

• 1854–1859: Arthur Magenis
• 1859–1872: George Jerningham
• 1872–1881: Hon. Edward Erskine
• 1881–1884: Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt
• 1884–1888: Edwin Corbett
• 1888–1893: Sir Francis Plunkett
• 1893–1896: Sir Spenser St. John
• 1896–1901: Hon. Sir Francis Pakenham
• 1902–1904: Sir William Barrington
• 1904–1905: Rennell Rodd

  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sweden

• 1905–1908: Sir Rennell Rodd
• 1908–1912: Cecil Spring Rice
• 1913–1918: Esme Howard
• 1919–1924: Colville Barclay
• 1924–1927: Arthur Grant Duff
• 1928–1930: Sir Tudor Vaughan
• 1931–1934: Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
• 1935–1937: Michael Palairet
• 1938–1939: Sir Edmund Monson, 3rd Baronet
• 1939–1945: Sir Victor Mallet
• 1945–1948: Sir Bertrand Jerram

  Ambassadors to Sweden

• 1948–1951: Sir Harold Farquhar
• 1951–1954: Sir Roger Stevens
• 1954–1960: Hon. Sir Robert Hankey
• 1960–1963: Sir John Coulson
• 1963–1966: Sir Moore Crosthwaite
• 1966–1971: Sir Archibald Ross
• 1971–1974: Sir Guy Millard
• 1974–1977: Sir Sam Falle
• 1977–1980: Sir Jeffrey Petersen
• 1980–1984: Sir Donald Murray
• 1984–1987: Sir Richard Parsons
• 1987–1991: Sir John Ure
• 1991–1995: Robert Cormack
• 1995–1999: Sir Roger Bone
• 1999–2003: John Grant CMG
• 2003–2006: Anthony Cary
• 2006–2011: Andrew Jonathan Mitchell
• 2011–2015: Paul Johnston
• 2015–2019: David Cairns
• 2019–: Judith Gough