The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Mongolia is the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

's foremost

diplomatic representative Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of states (such as leaders and diplomats) intended to influence events in the international system.Ronald Peter Barston, ''Modern diplomacy'', Pearson Education, 2006, p. 1 ...

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

, and head of the UK's

diplomatic mission A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...

there. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to Mongolia''. Britain was the first Western country to recognise an independent Mongolia when diplomatic relations were established in January 1963 with appointment of the British

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 ...

in Peking, Mr Terence Garvey, to

Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar (; mn, Улаанбаатар, , "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bator, is the capital and most populous city of Mongolia. It is the coldest capital city in the world, on average. The municipality is located in north ce ...

as non-resident Ambassador. In 1964 Mr (later Sir) Reginald Hibbert became resident Chargé d'Affaires in Ulaanbaatar. He was succeeded by Mr Heath Mason, who was appointed as the first resident British Ambassador in 1966. In 1968 the Embassy moved to a new building on Peace Avenue where it is still located today.

List of heads of mission

Ambassadors

*1963–1964: Terence Garvey ''(non-resident)'' *1964–1966:

Reginald Hibbert Sir Reginald Alfred Hibbert, (21 February 1922 – 5 October 2002) was a British diplomat. Career Reginald Hibbert was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, and Worcester College, Oxford, whe ...

''(chargé d'affaires)'' *1966–1967: Heath Mason *1967–1968: Oliver Kemp *1969–1971: Roland Carter *1971–1974: John Colvin *1974–1977:

Myles Ponsonby Myles Walter Ponsonby CBE (12 September 1924 – 1 February 1999), was a British soldier, intelligence officer, diplomat and politician. He was Ambassador to Mongolia from 1974 to 1977. Early life The son of Victor Coope Ponsonby MC and Gladys ...

*1977–1979: Julian Hartland-Swann *1979–1982: Thomas Haining *1982–1984: James Paterson *1984–1987: Allan Butler (diplomat) *1987–1989: Guy Hart *1989–1991:

David Sprague David Shafer Sprague (August 11, 1910 – February 20, 1968) was a star football player in the Canadian Football League for eleven seasons for the Hamilton Tigers and the Ottawa Rough Riders. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of ...

*1991–1993: Anthony Morey *1994–1997: Ian Sloane *1997–1999:

John Durham John Henry Durham (born March 16, 1950) is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut (D. Conn.) from 2018 to 2021. By April 2019, he had been assigned to investigate the origins of the Federal ...

*1999–2001:

Kay Coombs Kay Coombs OBE (born 8 July 1945) is a British diplomat. She was a member of the British diplomatic service and was UK ambassador to Honduras (2002–2003) and to Mongolia (1999–2001). Coombs was born on 8 July 1945. Her parents were Beatrice ...

*2001–2004:

Philip Rouse Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularize ...

*2004–2006:

Richard Austen Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

*2006–2008:

Christopher Osborne Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει� ...

*2008–2009: Thorhilda Abbott-Watt *2009–2011: William Dickson *2011–2012: Thorhilda Abbott-Watt *2012–2015:

Christopher Stuart The Rt Hon Christopher Charles Stuart was the British Ambassador to Mongolia from May 2012 to February 2015. He first joined the FCO in 1997, and had served in both the UK, and the Consulate General in Osaka and Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, befor ...

*2015–2018:

Catherine Arnold Catherine Elizabeth Jane Arnold, (born 10 November 1978) is a British academic administrator and former diplomat. Since October 2019, she has been the Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge: she is the fifteenth person to hold that post and ...

*2018–:

Philip Malone Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularize ...

References

External links

UK and Mongolia
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Previous ambassadors to Mongolia
{{Lists of heads of UK diplomatic missions