List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Dominican Republic

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Dominican Republic is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Dominican Republic.

From 1999 to 2015 the holder was also ambassador to the Republic of Haiti.^[1] In June 2012 the British Foreign Secretary announced that the UK was to open a new embassy in Haiti.^[2] In 2015 Sharon Isabel Campbell was appointed as dedicated ambassador to Haiti, but still to be non-resident, since she is married to the ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Christopher John Campbell.^[3] In 2019, Mockbul Ali was appointed as both Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and non-resident Ambassador to Haiti.^[4]

List of heads of mission

Chargé d’Affaires

1871–1874: Spenser St. John
1874–1883: Major Robert Stuart
There was no diplomatic agent there from 1883 until 1913

Minister Plenipotentiary

1913–1916: Stephen Leech
Military Government proclaimed by US Officers, 1916
1919–1921: William Erskine

Chargé d’Affaires

1921–1923: Claude Kirwood Ledger
1923–1925: Ralph Darrell Wilson
1925–1929: John Bowering
1929–1930: Wilfred Hansford Gallienne
1930–1932: Robert George Goldie
1932–1935: Harold Ernest Slaymaker

Minister Resident And Consul

1935–1943: Alexander Swinton (later Sir S.) Paterson

Minister Resident And Consul (later Envoy extraordinary And Minister Plenipotentiary)

1943–1945: Cyril Frank Wilton Andrews

Envoy extraordinary And Minister Plenipotentiary

1945–1948: Russell Duncan Macrae
1948–1951: Stanley Herbert Gudgeon

Ambassador Extraordinary And Plenipotentiary

1951–1953: Stanley Herbert Gudgeon
1953–1955: Herbert Gybbon-Monypenny
1955–1958: Thomas Corney Ravensdale
1958–1962: Wilfrid Wolters McVittie
1962–1965: Stephen Alexander Lockhart
1965–1969: Ian Wright Bell
1969–1972: Leslie Boas
1972–1976: Paul Victor St. John Killick
1976–1979: Clement Spearman
1979–1983: Michael Cafferty
1983–1985: Roy George Marlow
1985–1988: Michael Newington (non-resident, combined with Venezuela)^[5]
1988–1993: Giles FitzHerbert (non-resident, combined with Venezuela)^[6]
1993–1995: John Gerrard Flynn (non-resident, combined with Venezuela)
1995–1998: Dick Thomson
1998–2002: David Gordon Ward
2002–2006: Andrew Richard Ashcroft
2006–2009: Ian Alan Worthington
2009–2015: Steven Fisher^[7]
2015-2020: Chris Campbell^[8]^[9]
2020-present^[update]: Mockbul Ali^[10]

References

^ "Previous ambassadors to the Dominican Republic and Haiti". Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
^ Foreign Secretary meets Prime Minister of Haiti^{[permanent dead link]}, Foreign & Commonwealth Office press release, 27 July 2012
^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Haiti". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 21 April 2015.
^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Dominican Republic and Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti". GOV.UK. 29 August 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
^ NEWINGTON, Sir Michael (John), Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012, accessed 3 Jan 2013
^ FitzHERBERT, Giles Eden, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012, accessed 3 Jan 2013
^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Her Majesty's Non-Resident Ambassador to Haiti". Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 27 August 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2013.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Dominican Republic". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 21 April 2015.
^ "Italy, Israel, Taiwan, UK and Haiti envoys present credentials". Dominican Today. 20 November 2015.
^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Dominican Republic and Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti". GOV.UK. 29 August 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2020.