British High Commissioner to India | |
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Assumed office 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Alexander Ellis |
Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations exchange high commissioners rather than ambassadors. Though there are a few technical differences (for instance,whereas ambassadors present their diplomatic credentials to the host country's head of state,high commissioners are accredited to the head of government),they are in practice the same office. The following persons have served as British High Commissioner to India .
Stubbington House School was founded in 1841 as a boys' preparatory school,originally located in the Hampshire village of Stubbington,around 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Solent. Stubbington House School was known by the sobriquet "the cradle of the Navy". The school was relocated to Ascot in 1962,merging with Earleywood School,and it closed in 1997.
Sir Terence Allen Shone was a British diplomat who served as the United Kingdom's Minister to Syria and Lebanon from 1944,High Commissioner to India from 1946 and deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1948.
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