The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Mongolia is the

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's foremost

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ic representative in

Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...

, and head of the UK's

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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

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in Peking, Mr Terence Garvey, to

Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities in Mongolia, most populous city of Mongolia. It has a population of 1.6 million, and it is the coldest capital city in the world by average yearly temperature. The municipa ...

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 Sir Terence Garvey KCMG (7 December 1915 – 7 December 1986) was a British diplomat who was High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to the USSR. Career Terence Willcocks Garvey was educated at Felsted School and University College, Oxford ...

''(non-resident)'' *1964–1966: Reginald Hibbert ''(chargé d'affaires)'' *1966–1967:

Heath Mason Heath Mason (born 1 June 2005) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League. Background Mason attended St. Gregory's college, being selected for the Australian Schoolbo ...

*1967–1968:

Oliver Kemp Oliver may refer to: Arts, entertainment and literature Books * ''Oliver the Western Engine'', volume 24 in ''The Railway Series'' by Rev. W. Awdry * ''Oliver Twist'', a novel by Charles Dickens Fictional characters * Ariadne Oliver, ...

*1969–1971:

Roland Carter Roland Winzel Carter (1892–1960) was an Indigenous Australian who was born in Raukkan, South Australia, and was the first of the Ngarrindjeri people to enlist in the First Australian Imperial Force to fight in World War I. Carter was wounded a ...

*1971–1974: John Colvin *1974–1977: Myles Ponsonby *1977–1979:

Julian Hartland-Swann Julian may refer to: People * Julian (emperor) (331–363), Roman emperor from 361 to 363 * Julian, of the Roman gens Julia, with imperial dynasty offshoots * Saint Julian (disambiguation), several Christian saints * Julian (given name), people w ...

*1979–1982:

Thomas Haining Thomas Nivison Haining (15 March 1927 – 17 July 2005), was a British diplomat. He was ambassador to Mongolia from 1979 to 1982. Personal life Haining married in 1955 and had a son, Nicholas. His wife, Dorothy Patricia, known as Pat, died at ...

*1982–1984: James Paterson *1984–1987:

Allan Butler (diplomat) Allan Robert Butler, OAM (born 1976) from Tumut, New South Wales is an Australian Paralympic athlete. In 1993, Butler moved to Canberra to take up a residential scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport. He won a gold medal at the 1 ...

*1987–1989:

Guy Hart Guy or GUY may refer to: Personal names * Guy (given name) * Guy (surname) * That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart Places * Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet * Guy, Arkansas, US, a city * Guy, Indiana, US, an uninco ...

*1989–1991:

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

*1991–1993:

Anthony Morey Anthony, also spelled Antony, is a masculine given name derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants ...

*1994–1997:

Ian Sloane Ian or Iain is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, which is derived from the Hebrew given name (Yohanan, ') and corresponds to the English name John. The spelling Ian is an Anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic forename ''Iain''. This name is a popu ...

*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, the Trump administration assigned him to investigate the origin ...

*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 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 popularized the n ...

*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 language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and i ...

*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 Thorhilda Mary Vivia "Thorda" Abbott-Watt (born 11 February 1955) is an English diplomat who has represented the United Kingdom in a number of countries. From 2016 to 2019 she was British Ambassador to Turkmenistan. Career Abbott-Watt joined ...

*2009–2011: William Dickson *2011–2012:

*2012–2015:

Christopher Stuart The Rt Hon Christopher Charles Stuart was the List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Mongolia, British Ambassador to Mongolia from May 2012 to February 2015. He first joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO in 1997, and had served i ...

*2015–2018:

Catherine Arnold Catherine Elizabeth Jane Arnold, (born 10 November 1978) is a British academic administrator and former diplomat. From October 2019 to October 2024, she was the Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge: she was the fifteenth person to hold th ...

UK Ambassador Presents Credentials
Montsame News Agency, 16 June 2015 *2018-2023:

Philip Malone Philip, also Phillip, is a male 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 popularized the n ...

*2023–: Fiona Blyth

References

External links

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