The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Serbia is the

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's foremost

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to the

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, and head of the UK's

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List of heads of mission

Consul to Serbia

*1837–1839:

George Lloyd Hodges Sir George Lloyd Hodges (1792 – 14 December 1862) was a British soldier and diplomat. 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 in the Bat ...

*1839–1842: No representative

Consul-General to Serbia

*1842–1859:

Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque, , (26 January 1793 – 1861) – diplomat, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul General and Consul-General to Serbia. Family Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque, descended from a French Huguenot family. He was born in L ...

*1860:

Robert Bulwer-Lytton Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, (8 November 183124 November 1891) was an English statesman, Conservative politician and poet who used the pseudonym Owen Meredith. He served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880durin ...

*1860–1869:

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Agent and Consul-General to Serbia

*1869–1875:

*1875–1879:

William Arthur White Sir William Arthur White (13 February 182428 December 1891) was a British diplomat. White entered the diplomatic service in 1857 at the age of 33, and between 1857 and 1886 had postings in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Danzig, Belgrade, and Bucharest. In 1 ...

Minister Resident to Principality of Serbia

*1879–1881: Gerard Francis Gould *1881–1885: Sidney Locock (from 1882 to the Kingdom of Serbia)

Minister Resident to the Kingdom of Serbia

*1885–1886:

Hugh Wyndham Sir Hugh Wyndham SL (1602 – 24 December 1684), of Silton, near Gillingham, Dorset, was an English Judge of the Common Pleas and a Baron of the Exchequer. Origins He was born at Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, the eighth son of Sir John Wyndh ...

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Serbia

*1886–1888: George Hugh Wyndham *1888–1890 Frederick Robert St John

Consul-General to the Kingdom of Serbia

*1890–1892: Frederick Robert St John

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Serbia

*1893–1898:

Edmund Fane Sir Edmund Douglas Veitch Fane (6 May 1837 – 20 March 1900) was a British diplomat. Early life and education Fane was born in Boyton, Wiltshire, the eldest son of Rev. Arthur Fane (d. 1872) of Boyton, prebendary of Salisbury, by Lucy, daughte ...

**1892–1894: Ronald Douglas Grant Macdonald (as Vice-Consul) **1894–1901: Ronald Douglas Grant Macdonald (as Consul) *1898–1900:

Edward Goschen Edward Goschen may refer to: * Sir Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet (1847–1924), a British diplomat * Sir Edward Goschen, 2nd Baronet (1876–1933), his son, also a British diplomat {{hndis, Goschen, Edward ...

*1900–1903:

Sir George Bonham, 2nd Baronet Sir George Bonham, 2nd Baronet (28 August 1847 – 31 July 1927), was a British diplomat, ambassador to Serbia and Switzerland. Career George Francis Bonham was educated at Eton College and Exeter College, Oxford. He succeeded to the baronetcy at ...

*1903–1906:

Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger DSO (25 March 1871 – 31 January 1920) was a British officer and diplomat, who was British Minister in Ethiopia from 1909 to 1919. Background and early life Thesiger was born into a well-connected family of politicia ...

(deputy) *1906–1910:

Sir James Whitehead ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

*1910–1913: Sir Ralph Paget *1914–1919:

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Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

*1919–1925: Sir Alban Young *1925–1929: SIr Howard Kennard

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

*1929–1935: Sir Nevile Henderson *1935–1939: Sir Ronald H. Campbell *1939–1941: Sir Ronald I. Campbell *1941–1943:

Sir George Rendel Sir George William Rendel (23 February 1889 – 6 May 1979) was a British diplomat.Eid Al Yahya, ''Travellers in Arabia'', (Stacey International, 2006). Early years Rendel, the son of the engineer George Wightwick Rendel was educated at Downs ...

*1943–1946: Sir Ralph Stevenson

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Yugoslavia

*1946–1951:

Charles Peake Sir Charles Brinsley Pemberton Peake (2 January 1897 – 10 April 1958) was a British diplomat. Early life and career Peake served in the Royal Leicestershire Regiment during the First World War, being commissioned into the 1/4th Battali ...

*1951–1954: Sir Ivo Mallet *1954–1957: Sir Frank Roberts *1957–1960: Sir John Walter Nicholls *1960–1964: Sir Michael Creswell *1964–1968: Sir Duncan Wilson *1968–1971: Sir Terence Garvey *1971–1977: Sir Dugald Stewart *1977–1980:

Robert Farquharson Robert Donald William Farquharson (born 1969) is an Australian man convicted of murdering his three sons on 4 September 2005, by deliberately driving his car into a farm dam. Farquharson was convicted in an earlier trial and was sentenced to ...

*1980–1982:

Edwin Bolland The name Edwin means "rich friend". It comes from the Old English elements "ead" (rich, blessed) and "ƿine" (friend). The original Anglo-Saxon form is Eadƿine, which is also found for Anglo-Saxon figures. People * Edwin of Northumbria (died ...

*1982–1985: Kenneth Scott *1985–1989: Andrew Wood *1989–1992: Peter Hall *1994–1997: Ivor Roberts (''

chargé d'affaires A ''chargé d'affaires'' (), 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 ...

'' to 1995) *1997–1999: Brian Donnelly *1999–2000:

Robert Gordon Robert Gordon may refer to: Entertainment * Robert Gordon (actor) (1895–1971), silent-film actor * Robert Gordon (director) (1913–1990), American director * Robert Gordon (singer) (1947–2022), American rockabilly singer * Robert Gordon (scr ...

(head of the interest section) *2000–2001: David Landsman (''chargé d'affaires'') *2001–2003: Charles Crawford

Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro

*2003: Sarah Price (''chargé d'affaires'') *2003–2006: David John Gowan

Ambassador to Serbia

Serbia again from 5 June 2006 *2006–2007: David McIlroy (''chargé d'affaires'') *2007–2010:

Stephen Wordsworth Stephen John Wordsworth Royal Victorian Order, LVO Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (born 1955) is a former British diplomat, now executive director of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics Biography Wordsworth was born in Port Ta ...

*2010-2011: Bill Longhurst (''chargé d'affaires'') *2011–2013: Michael Davenport *2013–2014: David McFarlane (''chargé d'affaires'') *2014-2019:

Denis Keefe Denis Edward Peter Paul Keefe CMG (born 29 June 1958) is a British diplomat and former Ambassador to Serbia. Biography Keefe was educated at Campion School, Hornchurch and studied Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge and Hellenistic Greek ...

*2019: Tracy Gallagher (''chargé d'affaires'') *2019-:

Sian MacLeod Sian Christina MacLeod (born 31 May 1962) is a British diplomat who was formerly head of the UK delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna. She is now the British Ambassador to Serbia. Career MacLeo ...

Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Serbia: Sian MacLeod
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Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...