The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Egypt is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

, and head of the UK's

diplomatic mission A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually denotes ...

in Egypt. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt''. Under the British occupation of Egypt (1882–1956), the British consul-general, high commissioner, or ambassador effectively ruled Egypt.

List of heads of mission

Consuls-General

* 1786–1796: George Baldwin ''(post abolished in 1793 but letter did not reach Baldwin until 1796)'' * 1803–1804: Charles Lock ''(appointed but died en route to Egypt)'' * 1804–1815: Ernest Missett ''(Agent, then Consul-General)'' *1815–1827: Henry Salt *1827–1833: John Barker ''(acting until 1829)'' *1833–1839: Patrick Campbell *1839–1841: Sir

George Lloyd Hodges Sir George Lloyd Hodges (1792 – 14 December 1862) was a British soldier and diplomat. Biography He was born at the Old Abbey, County Limerick, Ireland, the eldest son of George Thomas Hodges. He entered the British Army in 1806, and took part ...

*1841–1846:

Charles John Barnett Charles John Barnett (13 February 1790 – 4 August 1856) was an officer in the British Army who also served as a diplomat. Barnett was born in London on 13 February 1790 to Benjamin and Alice Barnett. He was baptised 12 March. He served in th ...

*1846–1853: Charles Murray *1853–1858:

Frederick Wright-Bruce Sir Frederick William Adolphus Wright-Bruce, GCB (14 April 1814 – 19 September 1867) was a British diplomat. Early life Frederick Bruce was the youngest of the three sons of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and his second wife Elizabeth, youn ...

*1858–1865: Robert Gilmour Colquhoun *1865–1876: Edward Stanton *1876–1879: Hussey Vivian *1879–1883:

Edward Malet Sir Edward Baldwin Malet, 4th Baronet (10 October 1837 – 29 June 1908) was a British diplomat. Edward Malet came from a family of diplomats; his father was Sir Alexander Malet, British minister to Württemberg and later to the German Co ...

*1883–1907: Sir Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer *1907–1911: Sir

Eldon Gorst Sir John Eldon Gorst (born John Lowndes Gorst; 25 June 1861 – 12 July 1911) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was British Consul-General in Egypt from 1907 to 1911. Career Gorst was the son of Sir John Eldon Gorst, Sol ...

''with rank of Minister Plenipotentiary'' *1911–1914: Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener ''with rank of Minister Plenipotentiary''

High Commissioners

*1914–1915: Sir

Milne Cheetham Sir Joshua Milne Crompton Cheetham (9 July 1869 – 6 January 1938) was a British diplomat. Biography Born in Preston, the son of Joshua Milne Cheetham, MP, he was educated at Rossall School, from which he won a scholarship to Christ Churc ...

*1915–1917: Sir

Henry McMahon Sir Vincent Arthur Henry McMahon (28 November 1862 – 29 December 1949) was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat who served as the Foreign Secretary in the Government of India from 1911 to 1915 and as the High Commissioner in Egypt fr ...

*1917–1919: Sir

Francis Reginald Wingate General (United Kingdom), General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet (25 June 1861 – 29 January 1953) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator in Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Sudan. He served as List of governors of p ...

*1919–1925:

Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a senior British Army officer and imperial governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in World War I, in which he led the Britis ...

*1925–1929:

George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, (19 September 1879 – 4 February 1941) was a British Conservative politician and colonial administrator who was strongly associated with the " Diehard" wing of the party. From 1937 to 1941, he was chair ...

*1929–1933: Sir

Percy Loraine Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, 12th Baronet, (5 November 1880 – 23 May 1961) was a British diplomat. He was British High Commissioner to Egypt from 1929 to 1933, British Ambassador to Turkey from 1933 to 1939 and British Ambassador to Italy from 1 ...

*1934–1936: Sir

Miles Lampson Miles Wedderburn Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn, (24 August 1880 – 18 September 1964) was a British diplomat. Background and education Miles Lampson was the son of Norman Lampson, and grandson of Sir Curtis Lampson, 1st Baronet. His mothe ...

Ambassadors

*1936–1946: Sir

*1946–1950: Sir

Ronald Ian Campbell Sir Ronald Ian Campbell (7 June 1890 – 22 April 1983) was a British diplomat. Campbell was the second son of Sir Guy Campbell, 3rd Baronet (see Campbell baronets), and Nina, daughter of Frederick Lehmann. He was educated at Eton and gradua ...

*1950–1955: Sir

Ralph Stevenson Sir Ralph Clarmont Skrine Stevenson, GCMG, MLC, CP (16 May 1895 – 23 June 1977) was a British diplomat. Biography He was the son of Surgeon-General, H.W. Stevenson and was educated at Wellington College and University College, Oxford. He ...

*1955–1956: Sir

Humphrey Trevelyan Humphrey Trevelyan, Baron Trevelyan, (27 November 1905 – 9 February 1985) was a British colonial administrator, diplomat and writer. Having begun his career in the Indian Civil Service and Indian Political Service, he transferred to HM Diplo ...

*1956–1959: ''Break in relations due to

Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also known as the Second Arab–Israeli War, the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. Israel invaded on 29 October, having done so w ...

'' *1959–1961: Sir Colin Crowe ''(

Chargé d'affaires A (), plural ''chargés d'affaires'', often shortened to ''chargé'' (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to ''charge-D'', is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador. The term is Frenc ...

)'' *1961–1964: Sir Harold Beeley *1964–1965: Sir George Humphrey Middleton *1965–1967: ''Break in relations over

Rhodesia Rhodesia ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state, unrecognised state in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979. Rhodesia served as the ''de facto'' Succession of states, successor state to the ...

'' *1967–1969: Sir Harold Beeley *1969–1973: Sir

Richard Ashton Beaumont Sir Richard Ashton Beaumont (29 December 1912 – 23 January 2009) was a British diplomat and Arabist who spent most his diplomatic career serving in the Arab world. Educated at Repton School and Oriel College, Oxford, Beaumont joined the Consul ...

*1973–1975: Sir Philip Adams *1975–1979: Sir

Willie Morris William Weaks Morris (November 29, 1934 – August 2, 1999) was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi and raised in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Morris had a lyrical prose style which he lent to reflections on the American ...

*1979–1985: Sir Michael Scott Weir *1985–1987: Sir

Alan Urwick Sir Alan Bedford Urwick (2 May 1930 – 8 December 2016) was a British diplomat, who served as Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons from 1989 to 1995. Early life Alan Bedford Urwick was born on 2 May 1930, in London. He was the youn ...

*1987–1992: Sir James Adams *1992–1995:

Christopher William Long Christopher William Long (9 April 1938 – 5 May 2023) was a British diplomat. Following his retirement in 1998, Long served as director of the Oxford University Foreign Service Programme from 1999 to 2003. Diplomatic career Christopher Long j ...

*1995–1999: Sir David Blatherwick *1999–2001: Sir Graham Boyce *2001–2003: Sir

John Sawers Sir Robert John Sawers (born 26 July 1955) is a British intelligence officer, diplomat and civil servant. He was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), a position he held from November 2009 until November 2014. He was previously the Bri ...

*2003–2007: Sir

Derek Plumbly Sir Derek Plumbly (born 15 May 1948) is a British diplomat who has served throughout the Arab world. From 2012 to 2015, he served as the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon. Early life Plumbly was born in the New Forest in Hampshire. He attend ...

*2007–2011: Sir

Dominic Asquith Sir Dominic Anthony Gerard Asquith (born 7 February 1957) is a British career diplomat and former Ambassador to Iraq, Egypt, and Libya. He was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington DC. He was most recently the British High Com ...

*2011–2014: James Wilfrid Watt *2014–2018:

John Casson John David Casson CMG (born 4 June 1971) is a British diplomat, who served as the British Ambassador to Egypt from August 2014 to August 2018. Early life John David Casson was born in Birmingham, United Kingdom on 4 June 1971. Casson was bo ...

*2018-2021: Sir Geoffrey Adams *2021–: Gareth Bayley

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High Commissioners

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See also

References