List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Dominican Republic

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Dominican Republic is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Dominican Republic.

From 1999 to 2015 the holder was also ambassador to the Republic of Haiti. ^[1] In June 2012 the British Foreign Secretary announced that the UK was to open a new embassy in Haiti. ^[2] In 2015 Sharon Isabel Campbell was appointed as dedicated ambassador to Haiti, but still to be non-resident, since she is married to the ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Christopher John Campbell. ^[3] In 2019, Mockbul Ali was appointed as both Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and non-resident Ambassador to Haiti. ^[4]

List of heads of mission

Chargé d’Affaires

• 1871–1874: Spenser St. John
• 1874–1883: Major Robert Stuart
• There was no diplomatic agent there from 1883 until 1913

Minister Plenipotentiary

• 1913–1916: Stephen Leech
• Military Government proclaimed by US Officers, 1916
• 1919–1921: William Erskine

Chargé d’Affaires

• 1921–1923: Claude Kirwood Ledger
• 1923–1925: Ralph Darrell Wilson
• 1925–1929: John Bowering
• 1929–1930: Wilfred Hansford Gallienne
• 1930–1932: Robert George Goldie
• 1932–1935: Harold Ernest Slaymaker

Minister Resident And Consul

• 1935–1943: Alexander Swinton (later Sir S.) Paterson

Minister Resident And Consul (later Envoy extraordinary And Minister Plenipotentiary)

• 1943–1945: Cyril Frank Wilton Andrews

Envoy extraordinary And Minister Plenipotentiary

• 1945–1948: Russell Duncan Macrae
• 1948–1951: Stanley Herbert Gudgeon

Ambassador Extraordinary And Plenipotentiary

• 1951–1953: Stanley Herbert Gudgeon
• 1953–1955: Herbert Gybbon-Monypenny
• 1955–1958: Thomas Corney Ravensdale
• 1958–1962: Wilfrid Wolters McVittie
• 1962–1965: Stephen Alexander Lockhart
• 1965–1969: Ian Wright Bell
• 1969–1972: Leslie Boas
• 1972–1976: Paul Victor St. John Killick
• 1976–1979: Clement Spearman
• 1979–1983: Michael Cafferty
• 1983–1985: Roy George Marlow
• 1985–1988: Michael Newington (non-resident, combined with Venezuela) ^[5]
• 1988–1993: Giles FitzHerbert (non-resident, combined with Venezuela) ^[6]
• 1993–1995: John Gerrard Flynn (non-resident, combined with Venezuela)
• 1995–1998: Dick Thomson
• 1998–2002: David Gordon Ward
• 2002–2006: Andrew Richard Ashcroft
• 2006–2009: Ian Alan Worthington
• 2009–2015: Steven Fisher ^[7]
• 2015-2020: Chris Campbell ^{[8] [9]}
• 2020-present ^[update] : Mockbul Ali ^[10]

References

1. "Previous ambassadors to the Dominican Republic and Haiti". Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
2. Foreign Secretary meets Prime Minister of Haiti ^{[ permanent dead link ]}, Foreign & Commonwealth Office press release, 27 July 2012
3. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Haiti". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 21 April 2015.
4. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Dominican Republic and Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti". GOV.UK. 29 August 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
5. NEWINGTON, Sir Michael (John), Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012, accessed 3 Jan 2013
6. FitzHERBERT, Giles Eden, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012, accessed 3 Jan 2013
7. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Her Majesty's Non-Resident Ambassador to Haiti". Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 27 August 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2013.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
8. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Dominican Republic". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 21 April 2015.
9. "Italy, Israel, Taiwan, UK and Haiti envoys present credentials". Dominican Today. 20 November 2015.
10. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Dominican Republic and Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti". GOV.UK. 29 August 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2020.

External links

• UK and the Dominican Republic, gov.uk