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's foremost

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in the

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, and head of the UK's

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Early diplomats

* 1837–1842: Belford Hinton Wilson ''Chargé d'Affaires''.J. Haydn, ''Book of Dignities'' (1851), 87. * 1842–1848: William Pitt Adams ''Chargé d'Affaires''. * 1848–1851: Hon. Frederick Bruce ''Chargé d'Affaires'' (Consul-General from 1847). * 1851–1853: John Augustus Lloyd ''Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General''. Diplomatic relations were suspended in October 1853. Bolivia was combined with Peru until 1910. * 1874–1884:

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, ''Minister Resident and Consul-General''. ** 1882–1884: Alfred St John, ''Acting Consul-General at Lima''. * 1884–1894:

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, ''Minister Resident at Lima''. * 1894–1898: Henry Michael Jones, ''Minister Resident at Lima''. * 1898–1908: William Nelthorpe Beauclerk, ''Minister Resident and Consul-General in Bolivia'', 1903; ''Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru'', 1906.

Ministers to Bolivia, 1910–1947

The following were Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Bolivia: * 1910–1915: Cecil Gosling * 1919–1924: William Edmund O'Reilly * 1926–1930: Robert Michell * 1931–1934:

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* 1934–1937: Thomas Joseph Morris * 1937–1939: Evelyn Rawlins * 1939–1940:

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* 1940–1943: James Dodds * 1943–1947: T. Ifor Rees

Ambassadors

* 1947–1949: T. Ifor Rees * 1949–1956: Sir John Lomax * 1956–1960: Sir James Henderson * 1960–1964: Gilbert Holliday * 1964–1967: Sir Herbert Gamble * 1967–1971: Ronald William Bailey * 1971–1973: John Tahourdin * 1973–1977:

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* 1977–1981:

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* 1981–1985:

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* 1985–1987: Alan White * 1987–1989: Colum John Sharkey * 1989–1991: Michael Daly * 1991–1995: Mike Jackson * 1995–1998: David Ridgway * 1998–2001: Graham Minter * 2001–2005: William Sinton * 2005–2007:

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* 2007–2011:

Nigel Baker Nigel Marcus Baker (born 9 September 1966) is a British diplomat, who was formerly Ambassador to Bolivia and Ambassador to the Holy See. He was Head of the Latin America department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2016 to 2019, an ...

* 2011–2015:

Ross Denny Ross Patrick Denny (born 1955) is a British diplomat who has been the British Ambassador to Costa Rica and Nicaragua since 2015. He was appointed as ambassador on 3 February 2015 and succeeded Sharon Campbell and Chris Campbell in September t ...

* 2016–2018: James Thornton * 2019–: Jeff Glekin

References

External links

UK and Bolivia
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