List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Oman explained

Her Majesty's Ambassador to Oman is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Oman, and is the head of Britain's diplomatic mission in Muscat.

Until 1971 the British representative in Muscat was a Consul-General. Following the accession of Sultan Qaboos in 1970, the Sultan agreed that the Consulate-General should be raised to an embassy, and the first British Ambassador (and the first Ambassador of any country) to the Sultanate, Donald Hawley, presented his credentials to the Sultan on 22 July 1971.^[1]

In June 2023, Dr. Liane Saunders OBE became the first female UK ambassador to hold that post following the retirement of William Murray.

British Ambassadors to Oman

• 1971–1974: Donald Hawley^[2]
• 1975–1979: James Treadwell^[3]
• 1979–1981: Ivor Lucas^[4]
• 1981–1986: Duncan Slater
• 1986–1990: Robert Alston
• 1990–1994: Sir Terence Clark
• 1994–1999: Sir Richard Muir
• 1999–2002: Sir Ivan Callan
• 2002–2005: Stuart Laing
• 2005–2011: Dr Noel Guckian
• 2011–2014: Jamie Bowden^[5]
• 2014–2017: Jonathan Wilks^[6]
• 2017–2021: Hamish Cowell^{[7] [8]}
• 2021–2022: William Murray

• 2023–: Dr. Liane Saunders OBE^[9]

External links

• UK and Oman, gov.uk

Notes and References

1. Worral, James, State Building and Counter Insurgency in Oman: Political, Military and Diplomatic Relations at the End of Empire, I.B. Tauris, 2013, pp.138-140
2. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/45476/pages/10136 The London Gazette, 21 September 1971
3. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/46566/pages/5874 The London Gazette, 6 May 1975
4. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/47912/pages/9366 The London Gazette, 24 July 1979
5. http://www.gov.uk/government/people/jamie-bowden Jamie Bowden
6. http://www.gov.uk/government/people/jonathan-wilks Jonathan Wilks
7. Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Oman . Foreign & Commonwealth Office . 11 April 2017.
8. News: New British ambassador to Oman . 27 August 2017 . Times of Oman.
9. Web site: Change of His Majesty's Ambassador to Oman: Liane Saunders. Foreign & Commonwealth Office . 7 June 2023.