The ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Czech Republic, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission there. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
This list includes British ambassadors to Czechoslovakia, which divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
Heads of mission
Ambassadors to Czechoslovakia NameTenure beginTenure endBritish monarchCzechoslovak presidentSir George Clerk19191926George VTomáš Garrigue MasarykSir James Macleay19261930Sir Joseph Addison19301936Sir Charles Bentinck19361937George VIEdvard BenešSir Basil Newton19371939Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart21 July 19401941Frank Roberts (Chargé d'affaires) British Foreign Office Political Correspondence page xxvii18 July 19411941Sir Philip Nichols27 October 19411947Sir Pierson Dixon19481950Klement GottwaldSir Philip Broadmead19501953Sir Derwent Kermode19531955Elizabeth IIAntonín ZápotockýSir Clinton Pelham 5 May 19551957Sir Paul Grey28 June 19571960Antonín NovotnýSir Cecil Parrott19601966Sir William Barker19661968Sir Howard Smith19681971Ludvík SvobodaRonald Scrivener19711974Edward Willan19741977Ludvík Svoboda→Gustáv HusákPeter Male19771980Gustáv HusákJohn Rich; 19801985Sir Stephen Barrett19851988Laurence O'Keeffe19881991Gustáv Husák→Václav HavelDavid Brighty19911993Václav Havel
Ambassadors to the Czech Republic NameTenure beginTenure endBritish monarchCzech presidentDavid Brighty19931994Elizabeth IIVáclav HavelSir Michael Burton19941997David Broucher19972001Anne Pringle20012004Linda Duffield20042009Václav KlausSian MacLeod20092013Jan ThompsonChange of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 25 April 201320132018Miloš ZemanNick Archer20182022Matt Field2023 Charles III
See also Czech Republic–United Kingdom relations
Notes
a. David Brighty continued as both ambassador to the Czech Republic, and as non-resident ambassador to Slovakia after the 1993 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, until 1994, when he left the post and was replaced by Sir Michael Burton as ambassador to the Czech Republic and by Michael Bates as ambassador to Slovakia.
Citations
External links British Embassy Prague