The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Bolivia is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in La Paz.
Early diplomats 1837–1842: Belford Hinton Wilson Chargé d'Affaires.J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 87. 1842–1848: William Pitt Adams Chargé d'Affaires. 1848–1851: Hon. Frederick Bruce Chargé d'Affaires (Consul-General from 1847).G. C. Boase, 'Bruce, Sir Frederick William Adolphus Wright- (1814–1867)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004) , accessed 21 December 2008. 1851–1853: John Augustus Lloyd Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General.
Diplomatic relations were suspended in October 1853.The Foreign office list and diplomatic and consular year book (1857)
Bolivia was combined with Peru until 1910.
1874–1884: Spenser St. John, Minister Resident and Consul-General. 1882–1884: Alfred St John, Acting Consul-General at Lima. 1884–1894: Charles Edward Mansfield, Minister Resident at Lima. 1894–1898: Henry Michael Jones, Minister Resident at Lima. 1898–1908: William Nelthorpe Beauclerk, Minister Resident and Consul-General in Bolivia, 1903; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, 1906.
Ministers to Bolivia, 1910–1947 The following were Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Bolivia: 1910–1915: Cecil Gosling 1919–1924: William Edmund O'Reilly 1926–1930: Robert Michell 1931–1934: Richard Nosworthy 1934–1937: Thomas Joseph Morris 1937–1939: Evelyn Rawlins 1939–1940: Gordon Vereker 1940–1943: James Dodds 1943–1947: T. Ifor Rees
Ambassadors 1947–1949: T. Ifor Rees 1949–1956: Sir John Lomax 1956–1960: Sir James Henderson 1960–1964: Gilbert Holliday 1964–1967: Sir Herbert Gamble 1967–1971: Ronald William Bailey 1971–1973: John Tahourdin 1973–1977: Ronald Hope-Jones 1977–1981: Adrian Buxton 1981–1985: Stanley Duncan 1985–1987: Alan White 1987–1989: Colum John Sharkey 1989–1991: Michael Daly 1991–1995: Mike Jackson 1995–1998: David Ridgway 1998–2001: Graham Minter 2001–2005: William Sinton 2005–2007: Peter Bateman 2007–2011: Nigel Baker 2011–2015: Ross Denny 2016–2018: James Thornton 2019–2023: Jeff Glekin
2023–present: Richard Porter
References
External links UK and Bolivia, gov.uk