The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Chile is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Chile, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Chile. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to Chile.
List of heads of mission
Consul-General and Plenipotentiary
- 1823–1837: Christopher Richard Nugent, Consul General[1]
- 1837–1841: Colonel John Walpole[2]
Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General
- 1841–1849: Colonel John Walpole[2][3]
- 1849–1852: Stephen Henry Sulivan[4]
- 1853–1858: Edward Harris[5]
- 1858–1872: William Taylour Thomson[6]
Minister Resident and Consul-General to the Republic of Chile
- 1872–1878: Sir Horace Rumbold[7]
- 1878–1885: Francis Pakenham[8]
- 1885–1888: Hugh Fraser[9]
- 1888–1897: John Kennedy[10]
- 1897–1901: Audley Gosling[11]
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile
- 1901–1905: Gerard Lowther[12]
- 1905–1907: Arthur Raikes[13]
- 1907: Sir Brooke Boothby, Bt (appointed[14] but did not take up post due to poor health[15])
- 1907–1909: Henry Bax-Ironside[16]
- 1909–1913: Henry Lowther[17]
- 1913–1918: Sir Francis Stronge
- 1918–1922: Tudor Vaughan[18]
- 1923–1924: Sir Arthur Grant Duff[19]
- 1924–1927: Sir Thomas Hohler
- 1928–1930: Archibald Clark Kerr[20]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile
- 1930–1933: Sir Henry Chilton[21]
- 1933–1936: Sir Robert Michell[22]
- 1936: Sir Joseph Addison (appointed but did not proceed due to ill health)[23]
- 1937–1940: Sir Charles Bentinck
- 1940–1945: Sir Charles Orde
- 1945–1949: Sir John Leche
- 1949–1951: Sir Bertrand Jerram
- 1951–1954: Charles Stirling
- 1955–1958: Sir Charles Empson
- 1958–1961: Ivor Pink[24]
- 1961–1966: Sir David Scott Fox
- 1966–1970: Sir Frederick Mason
- 1970–1973: Sir David Hildyard
- 1973–1976: Reginald Secondé
- 1976–1980: (Ambassador withdrawn after torture of Sheila Cassidy)
- 1980–1982: John Heath
- 1982–1987: John Hickman
- 1987–1990: Alan White
- 1990–1993: Richard Neilson
- 1993–1997: Frank Wheeler
- 1997–2000: Glynne Evans
- 2000–2003: Gregory Faulkner
- 2003–2005: Richard Wilkinson
- 2005–2009: Howard Drake
- 2009–2014: Jon Benjamin
- 2014–2018: Fiona Clouder[25]
- 2018–2021 Jamie Bowden[26]
- 2021–present: Louise De Sousa[27]
References
- ↑ Edw Hertslet, The Foreign Office List, forming a complete British Diplomatic and Consular p 45
- 1 2 Darwin project from British diplomatic representatives 1789–1852. Edited by S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith, and C. K. Webster (London: Royal Historical Society. 1934).
- ↑ J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 87.
- ↑ "No. 20984". The London Gazette. 5 June 1849. p. 1832.
- ↑ "No. 21405". The London Gazette. 25 January 1853. p. 201.
- ↑ "No. 22106". The London Gazette. 2 March 1858. p. 1208.
- ↑ "No. 23913". The London Gazette. 29 October 1872. p. 5059.
- ↑ "No. 24563". The London Gazette. 15 March 1878. p. 2010.
- ↑ "No. 25447". The London Gazette. 27 February 1885. p. 858.
- ↑ "No. 25862". The London Gazette. 2 October 1888. p. 5429.
- ↑ "No. 26890". The London Gazette. 10 September 1897. p. 5059.
- ↑ "No. 27360". The London Gazette. 1 October 1901. p. 6395.
- ↑ "No. 27758". The London Gazette. 24 January 1905. p. 579.
- ↑ "No. 28020". The London Gazette. 10 May 1907. p. 3191.
- ↑ Obituary - Sir Brooke Boothby, The Times, London, 23 January 1913, p.9
- ↑ "No. 28074". The London Gazette. 1 November 1907. p. 7295.
- ↑ "No. 28225". The London Gazette. 19 February 1909. p. 1306.
- ↑ "No. 31361". The London Gazette. 27 May 1919. p. 6508.
- ↑ "No. 32789". The London Gazette. 23 February 1923. p. 523.
- ↑ "No. 33379". The London Gazette. 27 April 1928. p. 2973.
- ↑ "No. 33638". The London Gazette. 26 August 1930. p. 5295.
- ↑ "No. 34019". The London Gazette. 30 January 1934. p. 676.
- ↑ Sir Joseph Addison, The Times, London, 21 December 1936, page 12
- ↑ "No. 41440". The London Gazette. 8 July 1958. p. 4299.
- ↑ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Chile". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 18 July 2013.
- ↑ "Jamie Bowden starts duties as new British Ambassador to Chile". British Embassy Santiago. 21 June 2018.
- ↑ "Louise De Sousa". Gov.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
External links
- UK and Chile, gov.uk
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