The British Ambassador to Georgia is the

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's foremost

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Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

, and head of the UK's

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Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to Georgia''. After the collapse of the

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, the United Kingdom renewed diplomatic relations with Georgia and the then British ambassador to Russia, Sir Brian Fall, was also accredited to Georgia until the new embassy in Tbilisi was opened in 1995.

Heads of Mission

Chief British Commissioner of
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*1919–1920: Sir

Oliver Wardrop Sir John Oliver Wardrop KBE CMG (10 October 1864 – 19 October 1948) was a British diplomat, traveller and translator, primarily known as the United Kingdom's first Chief Commissioner of Transcaucasia in Georgia, 1919–20, and also as the fo ...

*1920–1921:

Claude Stokes Colonel Claude Bayfield Stokes (27 October 1875 – 7 December 1948) was an Indian Army officer and diplomat. He served in India and was an intelligence officer with Dunsterforce during the First World War. Stokes was educated at St John's Sc ...

Ambassadors

*1995–1998: Stephen Nash *1998–2001:

Richard Jenkins Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is an American actor who is well known for his portrayal of deceased patriarch Nathaniel Fisher on the HBO funeral drama series '' Six Feet Under'' (2001–2005). He began his career in theater at the Tr ...

*2001–2004:

Deborah Barnes-Jones Deborah Elizabeth Vavasseur Barnes (born 6 October 1956), known since her marriage as Deborah Barnes-Jones, is a British diplomat and administrator. Career Barnes joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1980. She was posted to the British ...

*2004–2007: Donald MacLaren *2007–2010:

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 ...

*2010–2013:

Judith Gough Judith Mary Gough CMG (born 8 November 1972) is a British diplomat and the current Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Sweden.

*2013: David Moran ''Chargé d'affaires with personal rank of ambassador'' *2013–2016:

Alexandra Hall Hall Alexandra Mary Hall Hall (born 1 February 1964) is a former British diplomat. Hall Hall studied at Durham University, where she read Economics and Politics, graduating with a 2:1 degree in 1986. She is married to Daniel Twining, head of the Int ...

*2016–2020:

Justin McKenzie Smith Justin may refer to: People * Justin (name), including a list of persons with the given name Justin * Justin (historian), a Latin historian who lived under the Roman Empire * Justin I (c. 450–527), or ''Flavius Iustinius Augustus'', Eastern Rom ...

*2020–: Mark Clayton

References

External links

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Heads of Mission

Chief British Commissioner of Transcaucasus The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains. The South Caucasus roughly corresponds to modern Arme ...

Ambassadors

References

External links

Chief British Commissioner of
Transcaucasus The South Caucasus, also known as Transcaucasia or the Transcaucasus, is a geographical region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, straddling the southern Caucasus Mountains. The South Caucasus roughly corresponds to modern Arme ...