List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Peru

His Majesty's Ambassador to Peru
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Incumbent Gavin Cook since 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office British Embassy in Lima
Style	His Excellency
Reports to	Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Residence	JW Marriott Hotel Lima
Appointer	The Crown on advice of the prime minister
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Inaugural holder	William Stafford-Jerningham Minister Resident and Consul-General
Formation	1873
Website	British Embassy Lima

Below is a list of heads of mission from the United Kingdom to the Republic of Peru since 1874:

Heads of mission

Ministers resident and consuls-general

• 1873–1874: Hon. William Stafford-Jerningham (previously Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republic of Peru) ^[1]
• 1874–1884: Spenser St. John ^[2]
• 1885–1894: Charles Mansfield ^[3]
• 1894–1898: Henry Mitchell Jones, ^[4] also to Ecuador 1895 ^[5]

Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary

• 1898–1908: William Beauclerk (also to Bolivia and Ecuador; died in 1908 in Lima) ^[6]
• 1908–1913: Charles des Graz (also to Bolivia and Ecuador) ^[7]
• 1914–1919: Ernest Rennie (also to Ecuador) ^[8]
• 1920–1923: Arthur Grant Duff (also to Ecuador) ^[9]
• 1923–1928: Lord Herbert Hervey (also to Ecuador) ^[10]
• 1929–1933: Charles Bentinck (also to Ecuador) ^[11]
• 1934–1944: Courtenay Forbes (also to Ecuador until 1935) ^[12]

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary

• 1944–1945: Sir Courtenay Forbes ^[13]
• 1945–1948: Walter Roberts ^[14]
• 1949–1951: Sir James Dodds ^[15]
• 1951–1953: Sir Oswald Scott ^[16]
• 1953–1958: Sir William Montagu-Pollock ^[17]
• 1958–1963: Sir Berkeley Gage ^[18]
• 1963–1967: Robert Marett ^[19]
• 1967–1970: David Muirhead ^[20]
• 1970–1974: Hugh Travers Morgan ^[21]
• 1974–1977: Kenneth Jamieson ^[22]
• 1977–1979: William Harding ^[23]
• 1979–1983: Charles Wallace ^[24]
• 1983–1987: John Shakespeare ^[25]
• 1987–1989: Adrian Beamish ^[26]
• 1990–1995: Keith Haskell ^[27]
• 1995–1999: John Illman ^[28]
• 1999–2003: Roger Hart ^[29]
• 2003–2006: Richard Ralph ^[30]
• 2006–2010: Catherine Nettleton ^[31]
• 2010–2014: James Dauris ^[32]
• 2014–2018: Anwar Choudhury ^[33]
• 2018-2022: Kate Harrisson ^[34]
• From 2022: Gavin Cook ^[35]

See also

• List of ambassadors of Peru to the United Kingdom

References

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2. "No. 25430". The London Gazette . 6 January 1885. p. 70.
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6. "No. 27972". The London Gazette. 30 November 1906. p. 8444.
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8. "No. 28800". The London Gazette. 10 February 1914. p. 1090.
9. "No. 32057". The London Gazette. 21 September 1920. p. 9364.
10. "No. 32874". The London Gazette. 26 October 1923. p. 7210.
11. "No. 33462". The London Gazette. 1 February 1929. p. 767.
12. "No. 34039". The London Gazette. 6 April 1934. p. 2218.
13. "No. 36552". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1944. p. 2707.
14. "No. 37309". The London Gazette. 16 October 1945. p. 5071.
15. "No. 38610". The London Gazette. 13 May 1949. p. 2349.
16. "No. 39323". The London Gazette. 31 August 1951. p. 4608.
17. "No. 40032". The London Gazette. 1 December 1953. p. 6533.
18. "No. 41391". The London Gazette. 20 May 1958. p. 3187.
19. "No. 43153". The London Gazette. 8 November 1963. p. 9128.
20. "No. 44448". The London Gazette. 10 November 1967. p. 12218.
21. "No. 45099". The London Gazette. 14 May 1970. p. 5438.
22. "No. 46366". The London Gazette. 8 October 1974. p. 8537.
23. "No. 47174". The London Gazette. 15 March 1977. p. 3580.
24. "No. 48055". The London Gazette. 3 January 1980. p. 64.
25. "No. 50154". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1985. p. 4.
26. "No. 51365". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 1988. p. 4.
27. "HASKELL, (Donald) Keith". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
28. "ILLMAN, John". Who Was Who. A & C Black. 1920–2008. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
29. "HART, Roger Dudley". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
30. "RALPH, Richard Peter". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2008. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
31. "NETTLETON, Catherine Elizabeth". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
32. "Our ambassador". British Embassy Lima. Archived from the original on 11 October 2010.
33. "Ollanta Humala recibió credenciales de cuatro nuevos embajadores" [ Ollanta Humala received credentials from four new ambassadors]. peru.com (in Spanish). 19 September 2014.
34. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Peru". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 2 March 2017.
35. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Peru: Gavin Cook OBE". Gov.uk. 7 December 2021.

External links

• UK and Peru, gov.uk