List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Dominican Republic explained
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Dominican Republic is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Dominican Republic.
From 1999 to 2015 the holder was also ambassador to the Republic of Haiti.[1] In June 2012 the British Foreign Secretary announced that the UK was to open a new embassy in Haiti.[2] In 2015 Sharon Isabel Campbell was appointed as dedicated ambassador to Haiti, but still to be non-resident, since she is married to the ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Christopher John Campbell.[3] In 2019, Mockbul Ali was appointed as both Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and non-resident Ambassador to Haiti.[4]
List of heads of mission
Chargé d’Affaires
Minister Plenipotentiary
- 1913 - 1916: Stephen Leech
- Military Government proclaimed by US Officers, 1916
- 1919 - 1921: William Erskine
Chargé d’Affaires
- 1921 - 1923: Claude Kirwood Ledger
- 1923 - 1925: Ralph Darrell Wilson
- 1925 - 1929: John Bowering
- 1929 - 1930: Wilfred Hansford Gallienne
- 1930 - 1932: Robert George Goldie
- 1932 - 1935: Harold Ernest Slaymaker
Minister Resident And Consul
- 1935 - 1943: Alexander Swinton (later Sir S.) Paterson
Minister Resident And Consul (later Envoy extraordinary And Minister Plenipotentiary)
- 1943 - 1945: Cyril Frank Wilton Andrews
Envoy extraordinary And Minister Plenipotentiary
- 1945 - 1948: Russell Duncan Macrae
- 1948 - 1951: Stanley Herbert Gudgeon
Ambassador Extraordinary And Plenipotentiary
- 1951 - 1953: Stanley Herbert Gudgeon
- 1953 - 1955: Herbert Gybbon-Monypenny
- 1955 - 1958: Thomas Corney Ravensdale
- 1958 - 1962: Wilfrid Wolters McVittie
- 1962 - 1965: Stephen Alexander Lockhart
- 1965 - 1969: Ian Wright Bell
- 1969 - 1972: Leslie Boas
- 1972 - 1976: Paul Victor St. John Killick
- 1976 - 1979: Clement Spearman
- 1979 - 1983: Michael Cafferty
- 1983 - 1985: Roy George Marlow
- 1985 - 1988: Michael Newington (non-resident, combined with Venezuela)[5]
- 1988 - 1993: Giles FitzHerbert (non-resident, combined with Venezuela)[6]
- 1993 - 1995: John Gerrard Flynn (non-resident, combined with Venezuela)
- 1995 - 1998: Dick Thomson
- 1998 - 2002: David Gordon Ward
- 2002 - 2006: Andrew Richard Ashcroft
- 2006 - 2009: Ian Alan Worthington
- 2009 - 2015: Steven Fisher[7]
- 2015-2020: Chris Campbell[8] [9]
References
- Web site: Previous ambassadors to the Dominican Republic and Haiti . https://web.archive.org/web/20110315060857/http://ukindominicanrepublic.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/our-embassy-in-santo-domingo/our-ambassador/previous-ambassadors . dead . 2011-03-15 . 2013-01-03 .
- http://ukindominicanrepublic.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=News&id=793998182 Foreign Secretary meets Prime Minister of Haiti
- Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Haiti . Foreign & Commonwealth Office . 21 April 2015.
- Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Dominican Republic and Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti. 2020-11-19. GOV.UK. 29 August 2019 . en.
- http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U29385 NEWINGTON, Sir Michael (John)
- http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U15868 FitzHERBERT, Giles Eden
- Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Her Majesty's Non-Resident Ambassador to Haiti. 2009-08-27. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 2013-01-03.
- Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Dominican Republic . Foreign & Commonwealth Office . 21 April 2015.
- News: Italy, Israel, Taiwan, UK and Haiti envoys present credentials . Dominican Today . 20 November 2015.
- Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Dominican Republic and Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti. 2020-11-19. GOV.UK. 29 August 2019 . en.
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