List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Egypt

British Ambassador to Egypt سفير المملكة المتحدة لدى مصر
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
Incumbent Gareth Bayley since 2018
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Cairo
Appointer	King Charles III
Inaugural holder	George Baldwin British Consul-General to Egypt 1786
Website	www.gov.uk/government/world/egypt

The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Egypt is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Egypt, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission 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.^[1]

List of heads of mission

Consuls-General

1786–1796: George Baldwin^[2] (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)^[3]
1815–1827: Henry Salt
1827–1833: John Barker (acting until 1829)
1833–1839: Patrick Campbell
1839–1841: Sir George Lloyd Hodges
1841–1846: Charles John Barnett
1846–1853: Charles Murray
1853–1858: Frederick Wright-Bruce
1858–1865: Robert Gilmour Colquhoun
1865–1876: Edward Stanton
1876–1879: Hussey Vivian
1879–1883: Edward Malet
1883–1907: Sir Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer^[4]
1907–1911: Sir Eldon Gorst with rank of Minister Plenipotentiary
1911–1914: Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener with rank of Minister Plenipotentiary^[5]

High Commissioners

1914–1915: Sir Milne Cheetham
1915–1917: Sir Henry McMahon
1917–1919: Sir Francis Reginald Wingate
1919–1925: Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
1925–1929: George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd
1929–1933: Sir Percy Loraine
1934–1936: Sir Miles Lampson

Ambassadors

1936–1946: Sir Miles Lampson
1946–1950: Sir Ronald Ian Campbell
1950–1955: Sir Ralph Stevenson
1955–1956: Sir Humphrey Trevelyan
1956–1959: Break in relations due to Suez Crisis
1959–1961: Sir Colin Crowe (Chargé d'affaires)
1961–1964: Sir Harold Beeley
1964–1965: Sir George Humphrey Middleton
1965–1967: Break in relations over Rhodesia
1967–1969: Sir Harold Beeley
1969–1973: Sir Richard Ashton Beaumont
1973–1975: Sir Philip Adams^[6]
1975–1979: Sir Willie Morris^[6]
1979–1985: Sir Michael Scott Weir^[6]
1985–1987: Sir Alan Urwick^[6]
1987–1992: Sir James Adams^[6]
1992–1995: Christopher William Long^[6]
1995–1999: Sir David Blatherwick
1999–2001: Sir Graham Boyce
2001–2003: Sir John Sawers
2003–2007: Sir Derek Plumbly
2007–2011: Sir Dominic Asquith
2011–2014: James Wilfrid Watt
2014–2018: John Casson^[7]
2018-2021: Sir Geoffrey Adams^[8]
2021–present^[update]: Gareth Bayley^[9]

References

^ A. D. Roberts, The Cambridge History of Africa, 1986, ISBN 0521225051, 7:742
^ "Baldwin, George". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1165. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Bosworth, C.E., Henry Salt, Consul in Egypt 1816-1827 and Pioneer Egyptologist, University of Manchester, 1974
^ Roger Owen, Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul (Oxford UP, 2005) Online review.
^ Sydney A. Moseley, With Kitchener in Cairo (1917) Online
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Craig, James (27 July 2016). Shemlan: A History of the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies. Springer. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-349-14413-6.
^ Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Egypt, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 23 June 2014
^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Egypt in September 2018". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 5 September 2018.
^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Egypt Gareth Bayley". Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. 18 May 2021.

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