Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic
Britský velvyslanec v České republice
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
Incumbent
Nick Archer
since 2018
StyleHis Excellency
ResidencePrague
AppointerCharles III
Inaugural holderSir George Clerk
Formation1919
WebsiteBritish Embassy Prague

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Czech Republic, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission there. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Czech Republic.

This list includes British ambassadors to Czechoslovakia, which divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.

Heads of Mission

Ambassadors to Czechoslovakia

Name Tenure Begin Tenure End British monarch Czechoslovak president
Sir George Clerk19191926George VTomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Sir James Macleay19261930
Sir Joseph Addison19301936
Sir Charles Bentinck19361937George VIEdvard Beneš
Sir Basil Newton19371939
Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart21 July 19401941
Frank Roberts (Chargé d'affaires)[1]18 July 19411941
Sir Philip Nichols[2]27 October 19411947
Sir Pierson Dixon19481950Klement Gottwald
Sir Philip Broadmead19501953
Sir Derwent Kermode19531955Elizabeth IIAntonín Zápotocký
Sir Clinton Pelham5 May 19551957
Sir Paul Grey28 June 19571960Antonín Novotný
Sir Cecil Parrott19601966
Sir William Barker19661968
Sir Howard Smith19681971Ludvík Svoboda
Ronald Scrivener19711974
Edward Willan19741977Ludvík Svoboda
Gustáv Husák
Peter Male19771980Gustáv Husák
John Rich[3]19801985
Sir Stephen Barrett19851988
Laurence O'Keeffe19881991Gustáv Husák
Václav Havel
David Brighty19911993Václav Havel

Ambassadors to the Czech Republic

Name Tenure Begin Tenure End British monarch Czech president
David Brighty[a]19931994Elizabeth IIVáclav Havel
Sir Michael Burton[4]19941997
David Broucher19972001
Anne Pringle20012004
Linda Duffield20042009Václav Klaus
Sian MacLeod20092013
Jan Thompson[5]20132018Miloš Zeman
Nick Archer[6]20182022
Matt Field[7]2023 Charles III

See also

Notes

a. ^ David Brighty continued as both ambassador to the Czech Republic, and as non-resident ambassador to Slovakia after the 1993 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, until 1994, when he left the post and was replaced by Sir Michael Burton as ambassador to the Czech Republic and by Michael Bates as ambassador to Slovakia.

Citations

  1. British Foreign Office Political Correspondence page xxvii
  2. "NICHOLS, Sir Philip Bouverie Bowyer". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
  3. "RICH, John Rowland". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 18 October 2008.; "No. 48325". The London Gazette. 1 October 1980. p. 13693.
  4. "BURTON, Sir Michael (St Edmund)". Who's Who 2009. A & C Black. 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  5. Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 25 April 2013
  6. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Czech Republic". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 30 September 2017.
  7. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Czech Republic: Matt Field". GOV.UK. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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