The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Nepal is the

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's chief

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Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

, and head of the UK's

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. The present official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal''.

List of Heads of Mission

Envoy

*1924–1929: Hugh Wilkinson *1929–1934: Clendon Daukes

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

*1934–1935: Clendon Daukes *1935–1938: Frederick Bailey *1938–1944: Sir Geoffrey Betham *1944–1947: Sir George Falconer

Ambassador

*1947–1951: Sir George Falconer *1951–1955: Christopher Summerhayes *1955–1957:

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*1957–1962: Sir Leonard Scopes *1962–1963: Guy Clarke *1964–1965:

Antony Duff Sir Arthur Antony Duff (25 February 1920 – 13 August 2000) was a senior British diplomat and Director General of MI5. Early life and naval service Born in 1920 to Admiral Sir Arthur Allen Morison Duff KCB and Margaret Grace Dawson at Var Tr ...

*1966–1970: Arthur Kellas *1970–1974: Terence O'Brien MC CMG *1974–1977: Michael Scott *1977–1983:

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*1983–1986: Sir Anthony Hurrell *1987–1990: Richard Burges Watson *1990–1995: Timothy George *1995–1999: Barney Smith *1999–2002: Ronald Nash *2002–2006: Keith Bloomfield *2006–2010: Andrew Hall *2010–2013:

John Tucknott John Anthony Tucknott (born 2 January 1958) is a British diplomat. He was educated at Bournemouth School and King's College London (MA, International Studies) and served as British Ambassador to Nepal from 2010 to 2013; as British Deputy Hi ...

*2013–2015:

Andrew Sparkes Andrew Sparkes CMG (born 4 July 1959) is a former British diplomat who was ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo and Nepal. Career Andrew James Sparkes was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Manchester Grammar Schoo ...

*2015: John Rankin *2015–2019: Richard Morris *2019–present:

Nicola Pollitt Nicola Kathryn Pollitt has been the British Ambassador to Nepal since November 2019. Pollitt is the first woman British Ambassador to Nepal in more than two hundred years. She is one of seven female ambassadors to Nepal, out of a total of 27 re ...

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