List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Morocco
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Morocco is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Morocco, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission there. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco.
Since 1990 the British Ambassador to Morocco has also been non-resident ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
Heads of Mission
Ambassadors
- John Harrison (1610, 1613, 1615 and 1627)
- ?: William Rainsborough
- 1679: Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
- 1681: Sir James Leslie
- 1721: The Hon. Charles Stewart
Ministers
- 1845–1886: Sir John Drummond-Hay (1845 Agent and Consul-General,[1] 1856 Chargé d'Affaires, 1860 Minister Resident, 1872 Minister Plenipotentiary, 1880 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary[2])
- 1886–1891: Sir William Kirby Green (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)[3]
- 1891–1893: Sir Charles Euan-Smith (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
- 1893–1895: Ernest Satow (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
- 1895–1904: Sir Arthur Nicolson (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
- 1905–1908: Gerard Lowther (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)[4]
- 1908–1912: Sir Reginald Lister (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)[5]
- 1912–1956: Morocco under French protectorate
Ambassadors
- 1956–1957: Harold Freese-Pennefather[6]
- 1957–1961: Sir Charles Duke[7]
- 1961–1965: Sir Richard Beaumont[8]
- 1965–1969: Leonard Holliday[9]
- 1969–1971: Thomas Shaw[10]
- 1971–1975: Ronald Bailey[11]
- 1975–1978: John Duncan[12]
- 1978–1982: Simon Dawbarn[13]
- 1982–1984: Sydney Cambridge
- 1985–1987: Robin Byatt
- 1987–1990: John Shakespeare
- 1990–1992: John Macrae
- 1992–1996: Sir Allan Ramsay
- 1996–1999: William Fullerton
- 1999–2002: Anthony Layden[14]
- 2002–2005: Haydon Warren-Gash
- 2005–2008: Charles Gray
- 2008–2012: Timothy Morris
- 2012–2015: Clive Alderton[15]
- 2015–present: Karen Elizabeth Betts[16]
References
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 20456. p. 953. 25 March 1845.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 24819. p. 1790. 2 March 1880.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25611. p. 3619. 27 July 1886.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27755. p. 415. 17 January 1905.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 28223. p. 1110. 12 February 1909.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 40981. p. 502. 22 January 1957.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 41029. p. 1798. 22 March 1957.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 42519. p. 8445. 21 November 1961.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 43803. p. 10076. 29 October 1965.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 44957. p. 10482. 14 October 1969.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 45588. p. 1282. 1 February 1972.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 46681. p. 11464. 11 September 1975.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 47743. p. 511. 12 January 1979.
- ↑ "LAYDEN, Anthony Michael". Who's Who 2008. A & C Black. 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
- ↑ Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco and Non-Resident Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania at the Wayback Machine (archived April 30, 2012), British Embassy Rabat, 18 April 2012
- ↑ "Karen Elizabeth Betts". gov.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
External links
- UK and Morocco, gov.uk
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