List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Colombia

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

List of heads of mission

Diplomats to Colombia

• 1825: John Potter Hamilton and Patrick Campbell Plenipotentiaries
• 1826–1829: Alexander Cockburn Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary^[1][2]
  • 1829: James Henderson Consul general in Bogotá^[3]
• 1829–1831: William Turner Envoy Extraordinary^[1][2]

Diplomats to New Granada

• 1831–1838: William Turner Envoy Extraordinary until 1837; then Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary^[1][2]
• 1838–1842: William Pitt Adams Chargé d'Affaires^[2]
• 1841–1843: Robert Steward Chargé d'Affaires^[1][2]
• 1843–1854: Daniel Florence O'Leary Chargé d'Affaires^[1][2]

Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General to the United States of Colombia

• 1866–1873: Robert Bunch ^[4]

Minister Resident and Consul-General to the United States of Colombia

• 1873–1878: Robert Bunch ^[5]
• 1878–1881: Charles Edward Mansfield ^[6]
• 1881–1882: Augustus Henry Mounsey ^[7]
• 1882–1884: James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell ^[8]
• Mar – Dec 1884: Frederick St John ^[9]
• 1885–1892: William Dickson ^[10]
• 1892–1897: George Jenner ^[11]

Minister Resident and Consul-General to the Republic of Colombia

Sir Charles Euan-Smith

• Jul – Nov 1898: Sir Charles Euan-Smith ^[12]
• 1898–1906: George Earle Welby ^[13]
• 1906–1911: Francis William Stronge ^[14]

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Colombia

• 1911–1919: Percy Wyndham ^[15]
• 1919–1923: Lord Herbert Hervey ^[16]
• 1923–1926: William Seeds ^[17]
• 1926–1930: Edmund Monson ^[18]
• 1930–1936: Spencer Dickson ^[19]
• 1936–1941: Montague Paske-Smith ^[20]
• 1941–1944: Thomas Snow ^[21]

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Colombia

• 1944–1945: Thomas Snow ^[22]
• 1945–1947: Philip Broadmead ^[23]
• 1947–1953: Gilbert MacKereth ^[24]
• 1953–1956: Keith Jopson ^[25]
• 1956–1960: James Joint ^[26]
• 1960–1964: Stanley Fordham ^[27]
• 1964–1966: Sir Edgar Vaughan ^[28]
• 1966–1970: William Young ^[29]
• 1970–1973: Thomas Rogers ^[30]
• 1973–1977: Geoffrey Crossley ^[31]
• 1987–1990: Richard Neilson
• 1990–1994: Sir Keith Morris
• 1994–1998: Leycester Coltman
• 1998–2001: Jeremy Thorp
• 2001–2004: Sir Thomas Duggin
• 2004–2008: Haydon Warren-Gash
• 2008–2012: John Dew
• 2012–2015: Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby^[32]
• 2015–present: Peter Tibber^[33]

References

1. J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 87.
2. S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
3. Gabriel Paquette, Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and Its Atlantic Colonies, C. 1750-1830
4. The London Gazette: no. 23062. p. 398. 23 January 1866. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
5. The London Gazette: no. 23934. p. 1. 3 January 1873. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
6. The London Gazette: no. 24616. p. 4816. 23 August 1878. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
7. The London Gazette: no. 24970. p. 2342. 6 May 1881. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
8. The London Gazette: no. 25114. p. 2589. 2 June 1882. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
9. The London Gazette: no. 25342. p. 1713. 15 April 1884. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
10. The London Gazette: no. 25455. p. 1375. 27 March 1885. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
11. The London Gazette: no. 26246. p. 255. 15 January 1892. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
12. The London Gazette: no. 27009. p. 5733. 30 September 1898. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
13. The London Gazette: no. 27031. p. 7971. 9 December 1898. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
14. The London Gazette: no. 27907. p. 2795. 24 April 1906. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
15. The London Gazette: no. 28511. p. 5058. 7 July 1911. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
16. The London Gazette: no. 31217. p. 3145. 7 March 1919. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
17. The London Gazette: no. 32852. p. 5492. 10 August 1923. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
18. The London Gazette: no. 33168. p. 3565. 1 June 1926. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
19. The London Gazette: no. 33588. p. 1642. 14 March 1930. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
20. The London Gazette: no. 34314. p. 5342. 14 August 1936. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
21. The London Gazette: no. 35673. p. 3613. 18 August 1942. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
22. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 36552. p. 2707. 6 June 1944. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
23. The London Gazette: no. 37527. p. 1801. 9 April 1946. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
24. The London Gazette: no. 38295. p. 3064. 21 May 1948. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
25. The London Gazette: no. 39926. p. 4133. 28 July 1953. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
26. The London Gazette: no. 40715. p. 1070. 21 February 1956. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
27. The London Gazette: no. 42346. p. 3340. 5 May 1961. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
28. The London Gazette: no. 43373. p. 5723. 3 July 1964. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
29. The London Gazette: no. 44200. p. 13615. 16 December 1966. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
30. The London Gazette: no. 45142. p. 7378. 3 July 1970. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
31. The London Gazette: no. 46121. p. 13192. 6 November 1973. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
32. Her Majesty's Ambassador, Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 January 2013)
33. Peter Tibber, British Ambassador to Colombia, gov.uk

External links

• UK and Colombia, gov.uk