List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Vietnam explained

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Vietnam, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Hanoi.

The list below shows British ambassadors to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) at its capital, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), from 1954 after the Geneva Conference which separated French Indochina into its component states of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and temporarily partitioned Vietnam (although the Geneva agreement was not accepted by South Vietnam) until 1975 when North and South Vietnam were reunified. During that period the British government maintained a consulate-general in Hanoi. The British embassy is now in Hanoi with a consulate-general in Ho Chi Minh City.

Ambassadors

• 1954–1955: Sir Hubert Graves^[1]
• 1954–1957: Sir Hugh Stephenson^[2]
• 1957–1960: Sir Roderick Parkes^[3]
• 1960–1963: Henry Hohler^[4]
• 1963–1966: Gordon Etherington-Smith^[5]
• 1966–1967: Sir Peter Wilkinson
• 1967–1969: Lord MacLehose
• 1969–1971: Sir John Moreton^[6]
• 1972–1974: Brooks Richards
• 1974–1975: John Bushell^[7]
• 1975–1976: John Stewart^[8]
• 1976–1978: Robert Tesh^[9]
• 1978–1980: Sir John Margetson^[10]
• 1980–1982: Derek Tonkin^[11]
• 1982–1985: Sir Michael Pike^[12]
• 1985–1987: Richard Tallboys^[13]
• 1987–1990: Emrys Thomas Davies^[14]
• 1990–1997: Peter Keegan Williams^[15]
• 1997–2000: David Fall^[16]
• 2000–2003: Warwick Morris^[17]
• 2003–2007: Robert A. E. Gordon^[18]
• 2008–2010: Mark Kent^[19]
• 2010–2014: Antony Stokes^[20]
• 2014–2018: Giles Lever^[21]

• 2018–: Gareth Ward^[22]
• 2022-: Iain Frew^[23]

External links

• UK and Vietnam, gov.uk

Notes and References

1. Web site: GRAVES, Sir Hubert (Ashton) . Who Was Who . A & C Black . 2008-10-11.
2. Web site: STEPHENSON, Sir Hugh . Who Was Who . A & C Black . 1920–2014.
3. Townend, Peter, ed. (1970), Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (105th ed.)
4. Web site: HOHLER, Henry Arthur Frederick . Who Was Who . A & C Black . 2008-10-18.
5. Web site: ETHERINGTON-SMITH, (Raymond) Gordon (Antony) . Who's Who 2007 . A & C Black . 2007 . 2008-10-11.
6. Web site: MORETON, Sir John (Oscar) . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-11.
7. Web site: BUSHELL, John Christopher Wyndowe . Who Was Who . A & C Black . 2008-10-11.
8. Web site: STEWART, John Anthony Benedict . Who Was Who . A & C Black . 2008-10-11.
9. Web site: TESH, Robert Mathieson . Who Was Who . A & C Black . 2008-10-11.
10. Web site: MARGETSON, Sir John (William Denys) . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-11.
11. Web site: TONKIN, Derek . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-11.
12. Web site: PIKE, Sir Michael (Edmund) . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-11.
13. Web site: TALLBOYS, Richard Gilbert . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-11.
14. Web site: DAVIES, Emrys Thomas . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-11.
15. Web site: WILLIAMS, Peter Keegan . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-11.
16. Web site: FALL, David William . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-11.
17. Web site: MORRIS, Warwick . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-11.
18. Web site: GORDON, Robert Anthony Eagleson . Who's Who 2008 . A & C Black . 2008 . 2008-10-11.
19. Web site: Our Ambassador . UK in Vietnam . https://web.archive.org/web/20080912060327/http://ukinvietnam.fco.gov.uk/en/our-offices-in-vietnam/our-ambassador/ . 12 September 2008 . dmy-all.
20. Web site: Our Ambassador . UK in Vietnam . 9 December 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121209183904/http://ukinvietnam.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/our-embassy/010-our-ambassador/ . 9 December 2012 . dmy-all.
21. Web site: Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Vietnam . Foreign & Commonwealth Office . 7 January 2014.
22. Web site: New UK Ambassador to Vietnam begins new term of office . Voice of Vietnam . 7 August 2018.
23. Web site: Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Viet Nam: Iain Frew . 2024-01-09 . GOV.UK . en.