Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth

In November 1701 he was appointed as British aide to Cardinal Lamberg, the Holy Roman Emperor's chief commissary at the Congress of Regensburg.

His initial role was to regularise the position of the Russia Company which had mismanaged the tobacco monopoly granted it in 1698.

He also had to handle Russian sensibilities over the arrest for debt in 1708 of the emperor's envoy Andrey Matveyev, sent to London to seek British mediation in the Great Northern War.

In August 1716, when he was appointed envoy at Berlin,[7] but was seconded to The Hague,[8] to try to persuade the Netherlands to conform to the British embargo on Sweden.

Whitworth returned to Berlin in 1719, where the following year, he married the comtesse de Vaulgremont (died 1734), the daughter of a government official in French-speaking Flanders.