The high commissioner of the United Kingdom to Tanzania is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the United Republic of Tanzania, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Tanzania. The high commissioner is based at the High Commission of the United Kingdom, Dar es Salaam.
As the United Kingdom and Tanzania are both members of the Commonwealth of Nations, they exchange high commissioners rather than ambassadors.
Tanzania was formed in 1964 by the union of the Republic of Tanganyika, formerly a British colony, which had gained independence in 1961, and the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba, which had gained independence in December 1963. The People's Republic of Zanzibar had been created the previous year during a revolution in the Sultanate of Zanzibar, which 1890–1963 was a semi-independent Protectorate of the United Kingdom.
The high commissioner to Tanzania is also the UK representative to the East African Community.
List of heads of mission
Agents and consuls-general to the Sultanate of Zanzibar
1902–1904: Sir Charles Eliot (while he was Commissioner for the British East Africa Protectorate (later Kenya))
High commissioners Tanganyika
1961–1963: Sir Neil Pritchard
United Republic of Tanzania
1964–1965: Robert Fowler 1965–1968: Diplomatic relations severed due to situation with Rhodesia 1968–1972: Horace Phillips 1972–1974: Arthur Kellas 1975–1978: Mervyn Brown 1978–1982: Peter Moon 1982–1985: John Sankey 1986–1989: Colin Imray 1989–1992: Thorold Masefield 1992–1995: Roger Westbrook 1995–1998: Alan Montgomery 1998–2001: Bruce Dinwiddy 2001–2003: Richard Clarke 2003–2006: Andrew Pocock 2006–2009: Philip Parham 2009–2013: Diane Corner 2013–2016: Dianna Melrose 2016-2020: Sarah Cooke,
2020–: David Concar 2024-Present: Marianne Young
References
External links
UK and Tanzania, gov.uk