List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to South Africa

This is a list of British High Commissioners to the Republic of South Africa. From 1961 to 1994 South Africa was not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and the British head of mission was an ambassador.

High Commissioners

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• Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1897 - 1905)
• William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne (1905 - 1909)
• Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson (1909)
• Sir Murray Anderson (1928)
• Sir Herbert Stanley (from April 1931)
• William Henry Clark (from January 1935 - December 1939)
• Sir Edward Harding (from January 1940 - April 1941)
• William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech (from May 1941 - September 1944)
• Evelyn Baring (from October 1944)
• John Le Rougetel (from September 1951)
• Percivale Liesching (from March 1955)
• Sir John Maud (later Lord Redcliffe-Maud) (from January 1959 to 1961)

Ambassadors

• Sir John Maud (later Lord Redcliffe-Maud) (from 1961 to 1963)
• Sir Hugh Stephenson (1963 - 1966)
• John Walter Nicholls (1966 - 1969)
• Sir Arthur Snelling (1970 - 1973)
• Sir James Bottomley (1973 - 1976)
• Sir David Scott (1976-1979)
• Sir John Leahy (1979-1982)
• Sir Ewen Fergusson (1982-1984)
• Sir Patrick Moberly (1984-1987)
• Sir Robin Renwick (1987-1991)

High Commissioners (since 1994)

• Sir Anthony Reeve (1991–1996) (Ambassador from 1991 until 1994, then High Commissioner from 1994 until 1996)
• Dame Maeve Fort (1996–2000)
• Dame Ann Grant (2000–2005)
• Paul Boateng (2005–2009)
• Dame Nicola Brewer (2009–2013)
• Dame Judith Macgregor (2013–present)

See also

• High Commissioner for Southern Africa

External links

• UK and South Africa, gov.uk