List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Finland

The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Finland^[1] is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Finland, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Finland. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Finland.

List of heads of mission

Chargés d'affaires in Finland

• Henry Bell (1919)
• Coleridge Kennard (1919)

Ambassadors to Finland

• Richard Maximilian Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton (1919–1920)
• George Jardine Kidston (1920–1921)
• Sir Ernest Amelius Rennie (1921–1930)
• Sir Rowland Arthur Charles Sperling (1930–1935)
• Herbert Adolphus Grant Watson (1935–1937)
• Thomas Maitland Snow (1937–1940)
• Sir George Gordon Vereker (1940–1941)

No representation (1941–1944, due to Continuation War)

• Sir Francis Michie Shepherd (1944–1947)
• Sir Oswald Arthur Scott (1947–1951)
• Sir Andrew Napier Noble (1951–1954)
• Michael Justin Cresswell (1954–1958)
• Sir Douglas Laird Busk (1958–1961)
• Sir Con O'Neill (1961–1963)
• Sir Anthony Edward Lambert (1963–1966)
• Sir Robert David John Scott Fox (1966–1969)
• William Bernard John Ledwidge (1969–1972)
• Thomas Anthony Keith Elliott (1972–1975)
• Sir James Eric Cable (1975–1980)
• Andrew Christopher Stuart (1980–1983)
• Alan Brooke Turner (1983–1986)
• Hubert Anthony Justin Staples (1986–1989)
• Neil Smith (1989–1995)
• David Allan Burns (1995–1997)
• Gavin Wallace Hewitt (1997–2000)
• Alyson Bailes (2000–2002)
• Matthew Kirk (2002–2006)
• Valerie Caton (2006 - 2010)
• Matthew James Lodge (2010 - )

References

1. ^ Previous ambassadors to Finland