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1A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS:1900-2011CONTENTS:Foreign Office/Foreign and Commonwealth Office:pages 3-68Diplomatic Missions Overseas(alphabetically by country):pages 69-166Consul-Generals(alphabetically by city):pages 167-206Introduction:These lists are a companion to ‘British Ambassadors and High Commissioners 18802010’ on this site. The Notes provided on page 1 of that document apply here also.The principal source used has again been the annual Foreign Office List(from 1965 theDiplomatic Service List). As noted previously however publication ceased in 2006.I have not been able to date to access copies prior to 1917. Additionally I have made extensiveuse of both ‘Whitaker’s Almanack’ and ‘Who’s Who’.The Foreign Office List contains lists of previous British Ambassadors abroad. Prior to around1950 the List also included lists of previous British Consul-Generals. To my knowledge what isattempted in this Directory has not previously appeared in print or online.The lists included below involve a degree of selection on my part and may appear, to an extent, tobe somewhat arbitrary. I have however tried to include most of the Ministers within BritishEmbassies and High Commissions.The research involved in compiling these lists has been of exceptional difficulty and there willwithout any doubt be some mistakes and inaccuracies. It is however my hope that sharing theinformation I have been able to accumulate will be of some use to others. I am only too happy tobe corrected where I am in error.

2Notes:1. Deputy Under-Secretaries and Assistant Under-Secretaries. It has been particularlydifficult to identify the specific departmental/geographical responsibilities of the holders ofthese posts prior to the Second World War. Far fewer officials at those grades existed before1939 and their responsibilities were therefore usually much wider in scope. I have simplylisted Deputy and Assistant Under-Secretaries up to 1945 without including specificresponsibilities.2. Foreign Office Heads of Department. I have included many-but not all-of the departmentalheads within the Foreign Office up to 1965 and the Foreign and Commonwealth Officethereafter. Over the past ten to fifteen years there have been a very considerable number ofchanges within the FCO to the names and functions of most departments reflecting changes inthe international situation and in management practice. I have not attempted to reflect thesechanges and the departmental listings do not, by and large, extend beyond the mid 1990s.3. Counsellors. I have included in these lists as far as possible those Counsellors who could beidentified as the ‘senior’ Counsellors within an Embassy or High Commission. In most casesthese individuals held the additional post of Head of Chancery or, more recently, DeputyHead of Mission or Counsellor(Political). I have also attempted to provide lists of theCommercial Counsellors in at least the major British diplomatic missions abroad.4. Consul-Generals. The choice here may well appear to be somewhat arbitrary but those citiesinclude most of the major locations of British Consul-Generals. Deputy HighCommissioners based in major cities within Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria and Pakistanare included in this section.5. Honours and decorations are given for postholders but these are not necessarily those heldwhilst the individual was in post but are the ‘final’ honours awarded to the postholder. It wouldhave required a great deal more time and effort to identify which honours each individual heldwhilst in each particular post.6. Reference should be made to the companion list of British Ambassadors and HighCommissioners for detail of periods during which no diplomatic relations existed with aparticular state.

3FOREIGN OFFICE;from 1965 FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICEIndex:Assistant Under-Secretaries:Deputy Under-Secretaries:Heads of Department:Accommodation and Services(see Overseas Estate)Africa:American/America and Africa:Arabian:Arms Control and Disarmament(see Atomic Energy and Disarmament)Atlantic and Indian Ocean:Atomic Energy and Disarmament:Aviation and Telecommunications/ Aviation andMaritime/Aviation, Maritime, Science andEnergy(see Maritime, Aviation and Environment)Aviation, Marine and Telecommunications:Caribbean(see Mexico and Caribbean)Central:Central and North-West Europe(see Western)Central Africa/Central and Southern Africa:Central Europe(see Eastern Europe and Soviet)China and Hong Kong(see Far East)China and Korea(see Far East)Claims:Commodities:pages 14-28pages 8-13page 36page 39page 35page 45page 48page 59page 30page 38page 65page 59

4Commonwealth onsular:Cultural Relations:Defence:Dependent Territories General(see Gibraltar and South Atlantic)Disarmament(see Atomic Energy and Disarmament)Dominions Information/Dominions Intelligence(see Commonwealth Liaison)East Africa:Eastern:(and see under Soviet)Eastern Europe and Soviet/Eastern Europe:Economic Relations/Economic Policy:Egyptian:Energy:Energy, Science and Space:Environment, Science and Energy(see Energy, Science and Space)Equatorial Africa(see East Africa)Establishment and Organization:European Economic Organizations(see European Integration(External))European European Export Promotion(see Trade Relations and Exports)Falkland Islands(see South Atlantic and Antarctic)Far East/Far East and Pacific:Finance:Financial Policy and Aid/Financial Relations(see Economic Policy)General:page 60page 64page 63page 61page 47page 37page 34page 31page 55page 35page 58page 58page 51page 56page 57page 42page 66page 54

5Gibraltar and South Atlantic/Gibraltar andGeneral:Guidance and Information Policy(see Information Policy)Hong Kong/Hong Kong and Indian Ocean/HongKong and General:Industry, Science and Energy(see Energy, Science and Space)Information formation Policy:Information Research:Information Services:International Organizations(see United Nations)Ireland, Republic of:Japan and Pacific:Latin American(see South American and also Mexico andCaribbean)Latin American and Caribbean(see South American)League of Nations and Western(see Western)Levant:Marine and Transport(see Aviation, Marine andTelecommunications)Maritime and General(see Aviation, Marine andTelecommunications)Maritime, Aviation and Environment:Mexico and Caribbean:Middle East:Migration and Visa:Mutual Aid:Nationality, Treaty and Claims(see Treaty)Near-Eastern(see Eastern)page 41page 44page 62page 61page 62page 63page 33page 43page 35page 59page 40page 36page 65page 55

6Near East and North Africa(see Eastern)News:Non-Proliferation and Defence/Non-Proliferation(see Defence)North African(see Africa)North American/North American and Caribbean(see American)North and East African(see Africa)Northern:Oil(see Energy)Overseas Estate:Overseas Information(see Information Administration)Pacific Dependent Territories:Permanent Under-Secretary’s:Personnel/ Personnel(Training and General):Personnel Operations/Personnel Management:Personnel Policy:Personnel Services(see Establishment and Organization)Planning/ Policy Planning Staff:Rhodesia/Rhodesia(Political):Science and Technology(see Energy, Science and Space)Scientific Relations(see Energy, Science and Space)Security:Services’ Liaison(see Permanent Under-Secretary’s)South American:South Asia:South Atlantic and Antarctic:South Pacific(see Pacific Dependent Territories)South-East Asia:South-West Pacific:page 50page 30page 66page 45page 49page 52page 52page 53page 51page 38page 53page 40page 44page 45page 43page 45

7Southern/Southern Europe:Southern Africa:Soviet/Eastern:Trade Relations and Exports:Training(see Personnel)Treaty/Treaty and Nationality:United Nations/United Nations(Political):United Nations(Economic and Social):War(see Western)West Africa/West and Central Africa:West Indies/West Indies and Atlantic:Western/Western and Southern/Western Europe:Western Organizations:Whitehall Liaison(see Permanent Under-Secretary’s)Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary:Private Secretary(Foreign Affairs) to Prime Minister:page 32page 38page 31page 57page 64page 46page 46page 37page 41page 29page 47page 67page 68

L8Deputy Under-Secretary of State(up to 1945):Sir Victor A.A.H. Wellesley, K.C.M.G., C.B.:Sir C. Hubert Montgomery, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B.:Sir Lancelot Oliphant, K.C.M.G., C.B.:Rt.Hon.Sir Alexander G.M.Cadogan,O.M., G.C.M.G.,K.C.B.:Sir Orme G. Sargent, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.:Sir David J. Montagu-Douglas-Scott, K.C.M.G., 441944-1947Deputy Under-Secretary(Political Director/Europe):Lord Harvey of Tasburgh, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., CB.:1946-1947Sir Pierson J. Dixon, G.C.M.G., C.B.:1950-1952Sir John G. Ward, G.C.M.G.:Sir D’A. Patrick Reilly, G.C.M.G., O.B.E.:Sir William G. Hayter, K.C.M.G.:1954-19561956-19571957-1958Sir C.A. Evelyn Shuckburgh, G.C.M.G., C.B.:Viscount Hood, G.C.M.G.;Lord Brimelow, G.C.M.G., O.B.E.:Sir John E. Killick, G.C.M.G.:Sir Alan H.Campbell,G.C.M.G.:Sir Reginald A. Hibbert, G.C.M.G.:Sir Julian L. Bullard, G.C.M.G.:Sir Derek M.D. Thomas, K.C.M.G.:Sir M.John E.Fretwell,G.C.M.G.:Sir P.John Weston,K.C.M.G.:Sir Leonard V.Appleyard,K.C.M.G.:Rt. Hon. Baroness Neville-Jones,D.C.M.G.:Sir Jeremy Q.Greenstock,G.C.M.G.:Sir Emry Jones Parry,G.C.M.G.:Sir Peter F. Ricketts, G.C.M.G.:Sir R. John Sawers,K.C.M.G.:Sir Mark J. Lyall Grant, K.C.M.G.:Sir Geoffrey Doyne Adams, 0072007-20092009-2013

B9Deputy Under-Secretary(Economic Director/European Union-Economic Affairs/Europe and Globalization):Sir Edmund L. Hall-Patch, G.C.M.G.:Lord Sherfield, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.:Sir Pierson J. Dixon, G.C.M.G., C.B.:Lord Caccia, G.C.M.G.:Lord Gore-Booth, G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.:Sir D’A. Patrick Reilly, G.C.M.G.:Sir Charles H. Johnston, G.C.M.G.:Hon. Sir Con D.W. O’Neill, G.C.M.G.:Sir Patrick F. Hancock, G.C.M.G.:Sir Peter T. Hayman, K.C.M.G., C.V.O., M.B.E.:Sir James R.A. Bottomley, K.C.M.G.:Sir J.Oliver Wright,G.C.M.G.,G.C.V.O.,D.S.C.:Sir Donald J.D. Maitland, G.C.M.G., O.B.E.:Sir Norman Statham, K.C.M.G., C.V.O.:Sir Michael D.Butler,G.C.M.G.:Lord Bridges, G.C.M.G.:Sir Richard M. Evans, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.:Sir Crispin C.C. Tickell, G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.:Sir Rodric Q. Braithwaite, G.C.M.G.:Sir Nicholas P.Bayne,K.C.M.G.:Sir Brian L.Crowe,K.C.M.G.:Lord Jay of Ewelme,G.C.M.G.:Sir Paul Lever,K.C.M.G.:Sir Colin R.Budd,K.C.M.G.:Sir Michael A.Arthur,K.C.M.G.:Sir N. Kim Darroch, K.C.M.G.:Dame Nicola Brewer, D.C.M.G.:Martin E. Donnelly, C.M.G.:Simon J. Fraser, C.M.G.:Nicholas G.F. Baird, C.M.G., C.V.O.:Barbaa J. Woodward, C.M.G., 2004-20082008-20092009-20112011-

10Deputy Under-Secretary(Corporate Affairs/Resources/Chief Clerk):Sir W. Chauncy Cartwright, K.C.M.G.:Rt.Hon.Sir John A.C.Tilley,G.C.M.G.,G.C.V.O.,C.B.:Sir C. Hubert Montgomery, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B.:Charles Howard Smith, C.M.G.:Sir Frederick G.A. Butler, K.C.M.G., C.B.;Frank T.A. Ashton-Gwatkin, C.B., C.M.G.:Sir James I.C. Crombie, K.B.E., C.M.G.:Lord Caccia, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.:Sir H. Ashley Clarke, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.:Sir Roderick E. Barclay, G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G.:Sir W. Denis Allen, G.C.M.G., C.B.:Sir Francis B.A. Rundall, G.C.M.G., O.B.E.:Sir John E. Coulson, K.C.M.G.:Sir Colin T. Crowe, G.C.M.G.:Sir Peter A. Wilkinson, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E.:Sir J.Oliver Wright,G.C.M.G.,G.C.V.O.,D.S.C.:Sir Donald C.Tebbit,G.C.M.G.:Sir H.B.Curtis Keeble,G.C.M.G.:Sir Edward Youde, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., M.B.E.:Sir Derek M. Day, K.C.M.G.:Sir John S. Whitehead, G.C.M.G., C.V.O.:Sir R.Mark Russell, K.C.M.G.:Sir John D.I.Boyd,K.C.M.G.:Sir Andrew M.Wood,G.C.M.G.:Sir J.Robertson(Rob) Young,G.C.M.G.:Sir Christopher O. Hum,K.C.M.G.:Peter Collecott,C.M.G.:Sir C.Richard V. Stagg, K.C.M.G.:Sir James D. Bevan, K.C.M.G.:Matthew S. Rycroft, C.B.E.:(* Assistant Under-Secretary)190 -20072007-20112011-