Insignia: | Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government) (2022).svg |
Insigniasize: | 120px |
Insigniacaption: | Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom |
Incumbent: | Nick Whittingham |
Incumbentsince: | September 2019 |
Style: | His Excellency |
Residence: | Guatemala City |
Termlength: | At His Majesty's pleasure |
Formation: | 1834 |
First: | Frederick Chatfield |
Website: | https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-embassy-guatemala |
The British Embassy in Guatemala City is responsible for looking after the United Kingdom's interests in the Republic of Guatemala. The official title is His Brittanic Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Guatemala.
The British ambassador to the Republic of Honduras is also resident in Guatemala City: the British embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, was closed in 2003[1] the ambassador to Guatemala is also accredited to Honduras.
Period | Representative | Title | |
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1834–1840 | Frederick Chatfield[2] | Consul (Consul-General from 1842, Chargé d'affaires from 1849) in Central America | |
1842–1850 | |||
1852–1860 | Charles Wyke[3] | Consul-General (chargé d'affaires from 1854, envoy-extraordinary from 1859) in Central America | |
1860–1861 | George Fagan | Chargé d'affaires | |
1861–1866 | George Buckley Mathew | Chargé d'affaires | |
1866–1874 | Edwin Corbett | Minister Resident and Consul-General | |
1874–1881 | Sidney Locock[4] | Minister Resident and Consul-General | |
1881–1884 | Frederick St John[5] | Minister Resident and Consul-General | |
1884–1890 | James Harriss-Gastrell[6] | Minister Resident and Consul-General | |
1890–1897 | Audley Gosling[7] | Minister Resident | |
1897–1902 | George Jenner | Minister Resident | |
1902–1904 | Edward Thornton | Minister Resident and Consul-General | |
1904–1905 | Herbert Harrison | Chargé d'affaires | |
1905–1911 | Sir Lionel Carden[8] | Minister Resident | |
1911–1913 | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary | ||
1913–1919 | Alban Young[9] | Minister | |
1920–1922 | Hugh Gaisford | Minister | |
1922–1924 | Diplomatic relations downgraded | ||
1924–1925 | William O'Reilly[10] | Minister | |
1925–1928 | Archibald Clark Kerr | Minister | |
1928–1932 | David Rodgers[11] | Chargé d'Affaires | |
1933–1938 | John Birch[12] | Minister to Central America | |
1939–1945 | John Leche[13] | Minister and Consul-General | |
1946–1947 | Leslie Hughes-Hallett[14] | Minister | |
1947–1954 | Wilfred Gallienne[15] | Minister | |
1954–1956 | Richard Allen[16] | Minister | |
1957–1960 | Thomas Wikeley[17] | Minister and Consul-General | |
1961–1962 | Michael Williams[18] | Minister | |
1962–1963 | Ambassador | ||
1963–1964 | Robert Isaacson[19] | Ambassador | |
1965–1970 | Francis Trew[20] | Consul | |
1970–1974 | John Weymes[21] | Consul | |
1974–1977 | William McQuillan[22] | Counsellor and HM Consul | |
1978–1981 | Michael Wilmshurst[23] | Consul | |
1984–1987 | David Handley[24] | Chargé d'Affaires | |
1987–1991 | Bernard Everett[25] | Ambassador | |
1991–1995 | Justin Nason[26] | Ambassador | |
1995–1998 | Peter Newton[27] | Ambassador | |
1998–2001 | Andrew Caie[28] | Ambassador | |
2001–2006 | Richard Lavers[29] | Ambassador | |
2006–2009 | Ian Hughes[30] | Ambassador | |
2009–2012 | Julie Chappell[31] | Ambassador | |
2012–2015 | Sarah Dickson[32] | Ambassador | |
2015–2017 | Thomas Carter[33] | Ambassador | |
2017-2019 | Carolyn Davidson[34] | Ambassador | |
2019-2024 | Ambassador | ||
Oct 2024 | Juliana Correa[36] | Ambassador designate |