Semyon Vorontsov

Count
Semyon Vorontsov
Portrait of Count Vorontsov, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1806
Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office
25 May 1801 – 15 May 1806
Preceded byYakov Smirnov
(as Chargé d'affaires)
Succeeded byPavel Alexandrovich Stroganov
(as Chargé d'affaires)
Russian Minister at Vienna
In office
1783–1785
Personal details
Born
Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov

(1744-06-26)26 June 1744
Died9 July 1832(1832-07-09) (aged 88)
London, England
SpouseEkaterina Alekseevna Seniavina
RelationsAlexander Vorontsov (brother)
Elizaveta Vorontsova (sister)
Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (sister)
ChildrenMikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov
Catherine Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Parent(s)Roman Larionovich Vorontsov
Marfa Ivanovna Surmina

Count Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov (or Woronzow, Russian: Семён Романович Воронцо́в; 26 June 1744 – 9 July 1832) was a Russian diplomat from the aristocratic Russian Vorontsov family. He resided in Britain for the last 47 years of his life, from 1785 until his death in 1832, during which time he was the Russian ambassador to the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1785 to 1800 and to the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1806.