The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Uruguay is 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 ...

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay''.

History

Geoffrey Jackson Sir Geoffrey Holt Seymour Jackson (4 March 1915 – 1 October 1987) was a British diplomat and writer. Background and earlier career Jackson received his education at Bolton School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He entered the Foreign Serv ...

, the British ambassador to Uruguay, was kidnapped in January 1971. He spent eight months in captivity before being released for a ransom in September 1971.

List of heads of mission

Early diplomats

*1824–1839: Thomas Samuel Hood *1846–1847: Adolphus Turner ''Chargé d'Affaires''J. Haydn, ''Book of Dignities'' (1851), 87. **1848:

William Gore Ouseley Sir William Gore Ouseley (26 July 1797 – 6 March 1866) was a British diplomat who served in various roles in Washington, D.C., Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. His main achievement were negotiations concerning ownership of Britain's interests ...

''Special Mission'' *1847–1851: Captai
Robert Gore
''Chargé d'Affaires'', buried at The British Cemetery, Montevideo *1851–1853: Hon. Frederick Bruce ''Chargé d'Affaires'' *1853–1854:

George John Robert Gordon George John Robert Gordon (1812-1912) was a British diplomat who served as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation from 1854 until 1858. He was born in Maryculter, Aberdeenshire, on 4 March 1812, the oldest child of Alexander Gordon ...

''Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General'' *Unknown: Theodore Lemm, buried at The British Cemetery, Montevideo *1871: Major James St. John Munro ''consul'', buried at The British Cemetery, Montevideo *1879: Sir

Clare Ford Sir Francis Clare Ford (4 June 1828 – 31 January 1899) was an English diplomat from London. Ford was born at was born at 32 Upper Brook Street, London, and was the son of writer Richard Ford and his wife, Harriet. He was commissioned a lieute ...

''Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General''

Minister Resident and Consul-General

*1879–1884: Hon. Edmund Monson *1884–1888: William Palgrave *1888–1893:

Ernest Satow Sir Ernest Mason Satow, (30 June 1843 – 26 August 1929), was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist. Satow is better known in Japan than in Britain or the other countries in which he served, where he was known as . He was a key fig ...

*1893–1906: Walter Baring *1906–1912: Robert Kennedy

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

*1913–1919:

Alfred Mitchell-Innes Alfred Mitchell-Innes (30 June 1864 – 13 February 1950) was a British diplomat, economist and author. He had the Grand Cross of the Order of Medjidieh conferred upon him by Abbas II, Khedive of Egypt. He served as the first president of ...

*1919–1925: Sir Claude Mallet *1925–1930:

Ernest Scott Sir Ernest Scott (21 June 1867 – 6 December 1939) was an Australian historian and professor of history at the University of Melbourne from 1913 to 1936. Early life Scott was born in Northampton, England, on 21 June 1867, the son of Hannah ...

*1930–1933: Robert Michell *1933–1941: Eugen Millington-Drake *1941–1943:

Ralph Stevenson Sir Ralph Clarmont Skrine Stevenson, GCMG, MLC, CP (16 May 1895 – 23 June 1977) was a British diplomat. He was the son of Surgeon-General, H.W. Stevenson and was educated at Wellington College and University College, Oxford. He married Helen ...

*1943:

Gordon Vereker Sir George Gordon Medlicott Vereker (11 December 1889 – 14 March 1976) was a British diplomat. Roving diplomat Vereker was born in County Galway, Ireland to a prominent and wealthy Protestant "Ascendancy" family, the son of Sir George Medlic ...

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

*1944–1949: Sir Gordon Vereker *1949–1953: Sir Douglas Howard *1953–1955: Eric Lingeman *1955–1957: Sir Keith Jopson *1957–1961: Sir Malcolm Henderson *1961–1966:

Norman Brain Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...

*1966–1969: Sir Keith Unwin *1969–1972:

''kidnapped 1971'' *1971–1972: James Hennessy (Consul) ''chargé d'affaires'' *1972–1977: Peter Oliver *1977–1980:

William Peters William, Willie, Willy, or Bill Peters may refer to: Arts and entertainment * William Peters (painter) (1742–1814), British painter * William Theodore Peters (1862–1904), American poet and actor *William Wesley Peters (1912–1991), American ar ...

*1980–1983:

Patricia Hutchinson Patricia Margaret Hutchinson CMG CBE (18 June 1926 - 11 December 2008) was a British diplomat, and ambassador to Uruguay in the early 1980s. Early life She was the second child of Francis Hutchinson, born in Madrid. Her father worked for the Ba ...

*1983–1986: Charles WallacePrevious Ambassadors to Uruguay
(1961–2005) via archive.org *1986–1989:

Eric Vines The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...

*1989–1991: Colum John Sharkey *1991–1994:

Donald Lamont Donald Alexander Lamont (born 13 January 1947LAMONT, Donald Alexander
''Who's ...

*1995–1998: Robert Hendrie *1998–2001: Andrew Murray *2001–2005: John Everard *2005–2008: Hugh Salvesen *2008–2012: Patrick Mullee *2012–2016: Ben Lyster-Binns *2016–2020: Ian Duddy *2020–: Faye O'Connor

References

External links

British Embassy Montevideo
{{Lists of heads of UK diplomatic missions

United Kingdom Ambassadors