List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Iraq

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

List of heads of mission

Ambassadors to Iraq

• 1929-1935: Francis Humphrys
• 1935–January 12, 1937: Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel
• January 12, 1937–February 27, 1939: Maurice Peterson
• May 3, 1939-1941: de:Basil Cochrane Newton
• 1941-1945: Kinahan Cornwallis
• 1945-1948: Sir Francis Hugh William Stonehewer-Bird, K.C.M.G., O.B.E.:
• 1948-1951: Sir William Henry Bradshaw Mack ^[1]
• 1951-1955: Sir John Monroe Troutbeck^[2]
• 1955-1958: Sir Michael Robert Wright^[3]
• 1958–1961: Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan
• 1961–1965: de:Roger Allen
• 1965–1967: Sir Richard Beaumont^[4]
• 1967–1968 Break in diplomatic relations due to Six-Day War^[5]
• 1968–1969 Trefor Ellis Evans^[6]
• 1969–1972 Glencairn Balfour Paul
• 1974–1977: John Graham
• 1977–1980: Alexander Stirling
• 1980–1982: Stephen Egerton
• 1982–1985: Sir John Moberly
• 1985–1989: Terence Clark
• 1990–1991: Sir Harold Walker
• 1991–2004: No ambassador, due to break in diplomatic relations.
• 2004–2005: Edward Chaplin
• 2005–2006: William Patey
• 2006–2007: Hon. Dominic Asquith
• 2007–2009: Christopher Prentice
• 2009–2011: John Jenkins
• 2011–present: Michael Aron

References

1. ^ William Henry Bradshaw Mack born 1894, Served on the Western Front, 1916-19. Entered the Diplomatic Service, 1921. 1951-1954: Ambassador Buenos Aires, Knighted, 1947, G.B.E., K.C.M.G.: Educated at Westminster and Christ Church, he entered the Foreign Service in 1920 and has served in Turkey, Ethiopia, Brazil and Czechoslovakia.
2. ^ John Monroe Troutbeck G.B.E., K.C.M.G. (1894-1970) 1920: third Secretary at the Foreign Office, 1927 Embassy Constantinople, 1930: Embassy Addis-Abbeba, 1931 Foreign Office, 1933 Embassy Rio de Janeiro 1933, 1934: Foreign Office, 1937: Prag.
3. ^ Michael Robert Wright, G.C.M.G. CMO, Born December 3, 1901 is the younger son of Merriel Mabel Emily Chermside and Sir Robert Samuel Wright of Headley Park, Liphook, Hampshire, England and the former , Educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford. [1]
4. ^ London Gazette: no. 43803. p. 10076. 29 October 1965. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
5. ^ "Sir Richard Beaumont". The Daily Telegraph. 28 January 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4376028/Sir-Richard-Beaumont.html. Retrieved 2009-07-12. 
6. ^ London Gazette: no. 44622. p. 7173. 27 June 1968. Retrieved 2010-02-25.

See also

• British-Iraqi relations

References

External links

• British Embassy in Iraq