List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Mongolia explained

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

Britain was the first Western country to recognise an independent Mongolia when diplomatic relations were established in January 1963 with appointment of the British Chargé d'Affaires in Peking, Mr Terence Garvey, to Ulaanbaatar as non-resident Ambassador. In 1964 Mr (later Sir) Reginald Hibbert became resident Chargé d'Affaires in Ulaanbaatar. He was succeeded by Mr Heath Mason, who was appointed as the first resident British Ambassador in 1966. In 1968 the Embassy moved to a new building on Peace Avenue where it is still located today.^[1]

List of heads of mission

Ambassadors

• 1963–1964: Terence Garvey (non-resident)^[2]
• 1964–1966: Reginald Hibbert (chargé d'affaires)
• 1966–1967: Heath Mason
• 1967–1968: Oliver Kemp
• 1969–1971: Roland Carter
• 1971–1974: John Colvin
• 1974–1977: Myles Ponsonby^[3]
• 1977–1979: Julian Hartland-Swann^[4]
• 1979–1982: Thomas Haining
• 1982–1984: James Paterson^[5]
• 1984–1987: Allan Butler (diplomat)^[6]
• 1987–1989: Guy Hart^[7]
• 1989–1991: David Sprague^[8]
• 1991–1993: Anthony Morey^[9]
• 1994–1997: Ian Sloane^[10]
• 1997–1999: John Durham^[11]
• 1999–2001: Kay Coombs^[12]
• 2001–2004: Philip Rouse
• 2004–2006: Richard Austen^[13]
• 2006–2008: Christopher Osborne^[14]
• 2008–2009: Thorhilda Abbott-Watt^[15]
• 2009–2011: William Dickson^[16]
• 2011–2012: Thorhilda Abbott-Watt^[17]
• 2012–2015: Christopher Stuart^[18]
• 2015–2018: Catherine Arnold^{[19] [20]}
  • 2018-2023: Philip Malone 2023–: Fiona Blyth

External links

• UK and Mongolia, gov.uk
• Previous ambassadors to Mongolia

Notes and References

1. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121215005408/http://ukinmongolia.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/our-embassy/embassy-history Embassy history
2. Web site: GARVEY, Sir Terence Willcocks . Who Was Who . A & C Black . 2008-10-12.
3. Web site: PONSONBY, Myles Walter . Who Was Who . A & C Black . 2008-10-12.
4. Web site: HARTLAND-SWANN, Julian Dana Nimmo . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-12.
5. Web site: PATERSON, James Rupert . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-12.
6. Web site: BUTLER, Allan Geoffrey Roy . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-12. subscription.
7. Web site: HART, Guy William Pulbrook . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-12.
8. Web site: SPRAGUE, David Keith . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-12.
9. Web site: MOREY, Anthony Bernard Nicholas . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-12.
10. Web site: SLOANE, Ian Christopher . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-12.
11. Web site: DURHAM, John Clive Pulbrook . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-12.
12. Web site: COOMBS, Kay . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-12.
13. Web site: AUSTEN, Richard James . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-12.
14. Web site: British Ambassador to Macedonia. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090121161833/http://ukinmongolia.fco.gov.uk/en/our-office-in-mongolia/our-ambassador-HMA/career-history . dead . 2009-01-21 . 2008-10-12.
15. Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Mongolia . https://web.archive.org/web/20120615175402/http://www.business-mongolia.com/mongolia/2008/10/22/ambassador-to-mongolia/ . usurped . 15 June 2012 . 2012-01-01.
16. Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Mongolia . 2012-01-01.
17. Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Mongolia . 2012-01-01.
18. Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Mongolia . 2012-01-01.
19. http://www.gov.uk/government/people/catherine-arnold Catherine Arnold
20. http://en.montsame.mn/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=11670:uk-ambassador-presents-credentials&Itemid=764 UK Ambassador Presents Credentials