List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Egypt
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| Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Egypt سفير المملكة المتحدة لدى مصر |
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| Style | His Excellency |
| Residence | Cairo |
| Appointer | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Inaugural holder | George Baldwin British Consul-General to Egypt 1786 |
| Website | UK and Egypt, gov.uk |
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Egypt is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Egypt, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Egypt. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Contents
List of heads of mission
Consuls-General
- 1786–1796: George Baldwin[1] (post abolished in 1793 but letter did not reach Baldwin until 1796)
- 1803–1804: Charles Lock (appointed but died en route to Egypt)
- 1804–1815: Edward Missett (Agent, then Consul-General)[2]
- 1815–1827: Henry Salt
- 1827–1833: John Barker (acting until 1829)
- 1833–1839: Patrick Campbell
- 1839–1841: Sir George Lloyd Hodges
- 1841–1846: Charles John Barnett
- 1846–1853: Charles Augustus Murray
- 1853–1858: Frederick Wright-Bruce
- 1858–1865: Robert Colquhoun
- 1865–1876: Edward Stanton
- 1876–1879: Hon. Hussey Vivian
- 1879–1883: Edward Malet
- 1883–1907: Sir Evelyn Baring
- 1907–1911: Sir Eldon Gorst with rank of Minister Plenipotentiary
- 1911–1914: Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener with rank of Minister Plenipotentiary
High Commissioners
- 1914–1915: Sir Milne Cheetham (acting)
- 1915–1917: Sir Henry McMahon
- 1917–1919: Sir Reginald Wingate
- 1919–1925: Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
- 1925–1929: George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd
- 1929–1933: Sir Percy Loraine
- 1934–1936: Sir Miles Lampson
Ambassadors
- 1936–1946: Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn
- 1946–1950: Sir Ronald Campbell
- 1950–1955: Sir Ralph Stevenson
- 1955–1956: Sir Humphrey Trevelyan
- 1956–1959: Break in relations due to Suez Crisis
- 1959–1961: Sir Colin Crowe (Chargé d'affaires)
- 1961–1964: Sir Harold Beeley
- 1964–1965: Sir George Middleton
- 1965–1967: Break in relations over Rhodesia
- 1967–1969: Sir Harold Beeley
- 1969–1972: Sir Richard Beaumont
- 1972–1975: Sir Philip Adams
- 1975–1979: Sir Willie Morris
- 1979–1985: Sir Michael Weir
- 1985–1987: Sir Alan Urwick
- 1987–1992: Sir James Adams
- 1992–1995: Christopher Long
- 1995–1999: Sir David Blatherwick
- 1999–2001: Sir Graham Boyce
- 2001–2003: Sir John Sawers
- 2003–2007: Sir Derek Plumbly
- 2007–2011: Sir Dominic Asquith
- 2011–2014: James Watt
- 2014–present[update]: John Casson[3]
See also
References
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- ↑ Bosworth, C.E., Henry Salt, Consul in Egypt 1816-1827 and Pioneer Egyptologist, University of Manchester, 1974
- ↑ Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Egypt, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 23 June 2014
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- Use British English from December 2013
- Articles containing potentially dated statements from August 2014
- Heads of the British Mission in Egypt
- Lists of ambassadors to Egypt
- Lists of ambassadors of the United Kingdom
- Lists of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom
- Egypt–United Kingdom relations
