List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic

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Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic
Britský velvyslanec v České republice
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Incumbent
Matt Field
since 2023
Style His Excellency
Residence Prague
Appointer Charles III
Inaugural holder Sir George Clerk
Formation1919
Website British Embassy Prague

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Czech Republic, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission there. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Czech Republic.

Contents

This list includes British ambassadors to Czechoslovakia, which divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.

Heads of Mission

Ambassadors to Czechoslovakia

NameTenure BeginTenure EndBritish monarchCzechoslovak president
Sir George Clerk 19191926 George V Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Sir James Macleay 19261930
Sir Joseph Addison 19301936
Sir Charles Bentinck 19361937 George VI Edvard Beneš
Sir Basil Newton 19371939
Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart 21 July 19401941
Frank Roberts (Chargé d'affaires) [1] 18 July 19411941
Sir Philip Nichols [2] 27 October 19411947
Sir Pierson Dixon 19481950 Klement Gottwald
Sir Philip Broadmead 19501953
Sir Derwent Kermode 19531955 Elizabeth II Antonín Zápotocký
Sir Clinton Pelham 5 May 19551957
Sir Paul Grey 28 June 19571960 Antonín Novotný
Sir Cecil Parrott 19601966
Sir William Barker 19661968
Sir Howard Smith 19681971 Ludvík Svoboda
Ronald Scrivener 19711974
Edward Willan 19741977 Ludvík Svoboda→
Gustáv Husák
Peter Male 19771980 Gustáv Husák
John Rich [3] 19801985
Sir Stephen Barrett 19851988
Laurence O'Keeffe 19881991 Gustáv Husák→
Václav Havel
David Brighty 19911993 Václav Havel

Ambassadors to the Czech Republic

NameTenure BeginTenure EndBritish monarchCzech president
David Brighty [a] 19931994 Elizabeth II Václav Havel
Sir Michael Burton [4] 19941997
David Broucher 19972001
Anne Pringle 20012004
Linda Duffield 20042009 Václav Klaus
Sian MacLeod 20092013
Jan Thompson [5] 20132018 Miloš Zeman
Nick Archer [6] 20182022
Matt Field [7] 2023  Charles III

See also

Notes

a. ^ David Brighty continued as both ambassador to the Czech Republic, and as non-resident ambassador to Slovakia after the 1993 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, until 1994, when he left the post and was replaced by Sir Michael Burton as ambassador to the Czech Republic and by Michael Bates as ambassador to Slovakia.

Citations

  1. ↑ British Foreign Office Political Correspondence page xxvii
  2. ↑ "NICHOLS, Sir Philip Bouverie Bowyer". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
  3. ↑ "RICH, John Rowland". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 18 October 2008.; "No. 48325". The London Gazette . 1 October 1980. p. 13693.
  4. ↑ "BURTON, Sir Michael (St Edmund)". Who's Who 2009. A & C Black. 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  5. ↑ Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 25 April 2013
  6. ↑ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Czech Republic". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 30 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Czech Republic: Matt Field". GOV.UK. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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