List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Venezuela

The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Venezuela is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to Venezuela, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Venezuela. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

List of heads of mission

1825–1835: Sir Robert Ker Porter, Consul at Caracas 1835–1841: Sir Robert Ker Porter, Chargé d'Affaires and Consul General 1841–1843: Sir Daniel Florence O'Leary, Acting Consul General February 1858: Sir Philip Edmund Wodehouse, Special Mission to Caracas

Chargé d'affaires and consuls-general Republic of Venezuela 1842–1858: Belford Hinton Wilson 1858–1864: Frederic Doveton Orme 1864–1865: Hon. Richard Edwardes

United States of Venezuela 1865–1869: George Fagan 1869–1873: Robert Thomas Charles Middleton

Ministers resident and consuls-general to the United States of Venezuela 1873–1878: Robert Thomas Charles Middleton

Ministers resident United States of Venezuela 1878–1881: Robert Bunch 1881–1884: Charles Edward Mansfield

Republic of Venezuela 1884–1887: Frederick Robert St John 1887–1897: Diplomatic relations severed over Essequibo territorial dispute

Carácas 1897–1902: Sir William Haggard 1902–1907: Henry Bax-Ironside 1908–1911: Sir Vincent Edwin Henry Corbett

United States of Venezuela 1911–1913: Frederic Dundas Harford

Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the United States of Venezuela 1913–1916: Frederic Dundas Harford 1916–1923: Henry Beaumont 1923–1925: Andrew Percy Bennett 1925–1926: William Seeds 1926–1932: William Edmund O'Reilly 1932–1936: Edward Allis Keeling 1936–1939: Sir Ernest Frederick Gye 1939–1944: Donald St Clair Gainer

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Republic of Venezuela 1944–1948: Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes 1948–1951: Sir John Magowan 1951–1955: Sir Robert Urquhart 1955–1961: John Walker 1961–1964: Sir Douglas Busk 1964–1969: Anthony Lincoln 1969–1973: Sir Donald Hopson 1973–1975: Sir Lees Mayall 1975–1979: Sir Jock Taylor 1979–1982: Reginald Secondé 1982–1985: Hugh Carless CMG 1985–1988: Michael Newington CMG 1988–1994: Giles FitzHerbert CMG 1994–1997: John Flynn CMG 1997–2000: Richard Wilkinson CVO 2000–2003: Dr John Hughes 2003–2006: Donald Lamont 2006–2007: Susan Jane Breeze, chargé d'affaires from Dec 2006 until Jan 2007 2007–2010: Catherine Royle 2010–2014: Catherine Nettleton OBE 2014–2017: John Saville 2021–2023: Becks Buckingham OBE, chargé d'affaires 2023–Present: Colin Dick MBE, chargé d’affaires ad interim

References

External links UK and Venezuela. gov.uk