The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Jordan 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 ...

of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's (UK) 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 ...

in the

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Riv ...

, and in charge 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 ...

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

List of heads of mission

Residents in Amman to Transjordan

* Apr 1921 – 21 Nov 1921: Albert Abramson * 21 Nov 1921 – Apr 1924: St John Philby * Aug 1924 – Mar 1939: Charles Henry Fortnom Cox * Mar 1939 – 17 Jun 1946:

Alec Kirkbride Sir Alec Seath Kirkbride (1897–1978) was a British diplomat, a proconsul, who served in Jordan and Palestine between 1920 and 1951. Biography Kirkbride was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on 19 August 1897 to British parents and grew ...

Ambassadors to Jordan

*1946–1952: Sir Alec Kirkbride *1952–1954: Geoffrey Furlonge *1954–1956: Sir Charles Duke *1956–1959: Sir Charles Johnston *1960–1962: John Henniker-Major *1962–1966: Sir Roderick Parkes *1966–1970: Sir Philip Adams *1970–1972: John Phillips *1972–1975:

Glencairn Balfour Paul (Hugh) Glencairn Balfour Paul (23 September 1917 – 2 July 2008) was a British Arabist and diplomat. He served as the British Ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia before becoming an academic at Exeter University. Biography The son of John Wi ...

*1975–1979: John Campbell Moberly *1979–1984:

Alan Urwick Sir Alan Bedford Urwick (2 May 1930 – 8 December 2016) was a British diplomat, who served as Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons from 1989 to 1995. Early life Alan Bedford Urwick was born on 2 May 1930, in London. He was the youn ...

*1984–1988: Sir John Coles *1988–1991: Anthony Reeve *1991–1993:

Patrick Eyers Patrick Howard Caines Eyers (born September 4, 1933, in Bristol) is a former British diplomat who, among other things, was the last ambassador to the German Democratic Republic in 1990. Professional activity Eyers entered the diplomatic service ...

*1993–1997: Peter Hinchcliffe *1997–2000:

Christopher Battiscombe Christopher Charles Richard Battiscombe (born 27 April 1940) is a retired British diplomat. After he retired from the foreign service he became director general of the society of London Art Dealers. He was educated at Wellington College, Ber ...

*2000–2002: Edward Chaplin *2002–2006:

Christopher Prentice Christopher Norman Russell Prentice (born 5 September 1954) is a retired British diplomat. His last diplomatic post was Ambassador to Italy. He is currently Chairman of the Governors of the British Institute of Florence. Prentice had been a B ...

*2006–2011:

James Watt James Watt (; 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fun ...

*2011–2015: Peter Millett *2015–2020:

Edward Oakden Edward Anthony Oakden is a British diplomat, the Ambassador to Jordan from 2015 to 2020. He was educated at Repton School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Career *In 1981 he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. *From 1984 to 1985 he ...

*2020–present:

Bridget Brind Bridget Brind is a British civil servant and diplomat, currently serving as List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Jordan, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Jordan. Early life Career Brind joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Offi ...

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External links

UK and Jordan
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Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...