The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Finland is the

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's foremost

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in the

Republic of Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Both ...

, 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 the Republic of Finland''.

Heads of mission

Chargés d'affaires

*1919: Henry Bell *1919: Coleridge Kennard

Ambassadors

*1919–1920: The Lord Alton *1920–1921: George Kidston *1921–1930: Sir Ernest Rennie *1930–1935: Sir Rowland Sperling *1935–1937: Herbert Grant Watson *1937–1940: Thomas Snow *1940–1941: Sir George Vereker *1941–1944: ''No representation due to

Continuation War The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944, as part of World War II.; sv, fortsättningskriget; german: Fortsetzungskrieg. A ...

'' *1944–1947: Sir Francis Shepherd *1947–1951: Sir Oswald Scott *1951–1954: Sir Andrew Noble *1954–1958: Michael Cresswell *1958–1961: Sir Douglas Busk *1961–1963: Sir Con O'Neill *1963–1966: Sir Anthony Lambert *1966–1969: Sir David Scott Fox *1969–1972:

Bernard Ledwidge Sir Bernard Ledwidge (9 November 1915 – 20 February 1998) was a British diplomat and writer. Ledwidge served as the British Ambassador to Finland from 1969 to 1972 and the British Ambassador to Israel from 1972 to 1975. Ledwidge also served ...

*1972–1975: Anthony Elliott *1975–1980:

James Cable Sir James Eric Sydney Cable (15 November 1920 – 27 September 2001) was a British diplomat and naval strategic thinker. As an author, he became well known for a series of his works published between 1971 and 1994 about gunboat diplomacy. ...

*1980–1983: Andrew Stuart *1983–1986: Alan Brooke Turner *1986–1989: ustin Staples*1989–1995: Neil Smith *1995–1997: David Burns *1997–2000:

Gavin Hewitt Gavin Hewitt (born 1951, Penge, London) is a British journalist and presenter, currently BBC News's News Editor. He was formerly its Europe Editor, a post he held between September 2009 to the autumn of 2014, and became News Editor to cover a wid ...

*2000–2002:

Alyson Bailes Alyson Judith Kirtley Bailes CMG (6 April 1949 – 29 April 2016) was a British diplomat, political scientist, academic and polymath. Early life Bailes was born on 6 April 1949 in Withington, Manchester. She was the eldest of three children of ...

*2002–2006:

Matthew Kirk Matthew John Lushington Kirk (born 10 October 1960) is a British businessman and former diplomat. He was the British Ambassador to Finland from 22 August 2002, until he resigned from the Diplomatic Service in 2006 to take up a position as Dir ...

*2006–2010: Valerie Caton *2010–2014: Matthew Lodge *2014–2017: Sarah Price *2018–2021: Tom Dodd *-present: Theresa Bubbear

References

External links

UK and Finland
''gov.uk''
Previous Ambassadors
UK in Helsinki, 8 September 2010, via archive.org {{Lists of heads of UK diplomatic missions

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...