The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Argentina is the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

's foremost diplomatic representative

Diplomat

A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

 in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission

Diplomatic mission

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 there. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Argentine Republic.

Ministers Plenipotentiary

• 1824–1826: Woodbine Parish
  Woodbine Parish
  Sir Woodbine Parish KCH was a British diplomat, traveller and scientist.Educated at Eton College, he took up his first diplomatic post in 1814, and was involved in events immediately following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo...
  
  , Consul-General and Plenipotentiary; Chargé d'Affaires from 1825
• 1826–1828: John, Lord Ponsonby
  John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby
  John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, GCB was a longtime British diplomat and politician.-Political career:Ponsonby, eldest son of the 1st Baron Ponsonby, and brother of Sir William Ponsonby , was born about 1770. He served as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Tallow...
  
  , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
• 1828–1830: Woodbine Parish
  Woodbine Parish
  Sir Woodbine Parish KCH was a British diplomat, traveller and scientist.Educated at Eton College, he took up his first diplomatic post in 1814, and was involved in events immediately following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo...
  
  , Chargé d'Affaires
• 1830–1832: Stephen Henry Fox.
• 1832–1834: Philip Yorke Gore, legation secretary was Chargé d'Affaires
• 1834–1836: Hamilton Charles James Hamilton
• 1835–1844: William Henry Mandeville
• 1844–1845: William Gore Ouseley
  William Gore Ouseley
  Sir William Gore Ouseley was a British diplomat who served in various roles in Washington, D.C., Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. His main achievement were negotiations concerning ownership of Britain's interests in what is now Honduras and Nicaragua.-Career:Ouseley was born in London to the...
  
  
• 1845–1847: Relations suspended
• 1847 (May–June): John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden
  John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden
  John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden, , Minister Plenipotentiary in the British Embassy at Madrid, Spain, 1850–1858, was the son of General John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden, GCB , a British peer, John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden, (1799–1873), Minister Plenipotentiary in the British Embassy...
  
  
• 1847–1848: Relations suspended
• 1848–1851: Henry Southern
• 1851–1852: Captain Robert Gore Chargé d'Affaires

• ?–1872: Hon. William Stuart
• 1872–1878: Lionel Sackville-West
  Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville
  Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville GCMG , was a British diplomat.-Background:Sackville-West was the fourth son of George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr, by Lady Elizabeth, daughter of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset...
  
  
• 1878–1879: Clare Ford
  Clare Ford
  Sir Francis Clare Ford GCB, GCMG, PC was an English diplomat.The son of Richard Ford, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Fourth Light Dragoons. However, he left the army in 1851, entered the diplomatic service, and became Secretary of Legation at Washington, D.C., where he was acting charges...
  
  
• ?-1884: George Glynne Petre
• 1884: Hon. Edmund Monson
  Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edmund John Monson, 1st Baronet GCMG, PC was a British diplomat.-Background and education:Monson was born at Seal, Kent the third son of William John Monson, 6th Baron Monson...
  
  
• 1885–1888: Henry de Norville

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic

• 1896–1902: William Barrington
  William Barrington (diplomat)
  Sir William Augustus Curzon Barrington KCMG , styled The Honourable from birth until 1901, was a British diplomat.-Background:...
  
  
• 1902-06: Sir William A.C. Barrington
• 1906-10: Sir Walter Townley
• 1910-19: Sir Reginald Tower
• 1919-22: Sir J.W. Ronald Macleay
• 1923-25: Sir Beilby F. Alston

Ambassadors (from 1927)

• 1925–1929: Sir Malcolm Robertson
  Malcolm Robertson
  Sir Malcolm Arnold Robertson, GCMG, KBE, PC, was the British Ambassador in Argentina from 1929 to 1932....
  
  
• 1930–1933: Sir James Macleay
• 1933–1935: Sir Henry Chilton
  Henry Chilton
  Sir Henry Getty Chilton , C.M.G. was a British diplomat to Spain during the Spanish Civil War.On arriving in Buenos Aires in September 1933 from his Embassy in Chile, Sir Henry Chilton opened a lengthy and increasingly desperate negotiation with London about the state of his official...
  
  
• 1935–1937: Nevile Henderson
  Nevile Henderson
  Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, KCMG , was the third child of Robert and Emma Henderson and was born at Sedgwick Park near Horsham, West Sussex. Ambassador of Great Britain to Germany from 1937 to 1939, he believed that Adolf Hitler could be controlled and pushed toward peace and cooperation with...
  
   (also to Paraguay
  Paraguay
  Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...
  
  )
• 1937–1941: Esmond Overy
• 1942–8 June 1944: David Victor Kelly
• 8 June 1944-9 April 1945 no diplomatic relations
• 9 April 1945–1946: David Victor Kelly resuming previous post
• 1946–1948: Sir Reginald Leeper
  Reginald Leeper
  Sir Reginald Wildig Allen Leeper was a British civil servant and diplomat. He was the founder of the British Council....
  
  

• 1951–1955: Sir William Mack
• 1955–1957: Sir Francis Evans
• 1957–1961: Sir John Guthrie Ward
• 1961–1964: Sir George Middleton
  George Humphrey Middleton
  Sir George Humphrey Middleton was a British diplomat. He served as the United Kingdom's ambassador to Lebanon , Argentina and Egypt . He was also Chief Political Resident in the Persian Gulf Residency and Chargé d'affaires in Iran during the Abadan Crisis.-References:GeneralSpecific...
  
  
• 1964–1969: Sir Michael Creswell
• 1969–1973: Sir Michael Hadow
• 1973–?: Sir Donald Hopson

• 1980–?: Sir Anthony Williams

From 1982–1992 there was no diplomatic relations between UK and Argentina. There was no Ambassador, but the embassy building remained open, as the British Interest Section of the Swiss Embassy, rather than as the British Embassy. The Argentine Embassy in London, came under the Brazilian flag during the same period.

Diplomatic presence restored following Madrid summit.

• 1990–1993: Humphrey Maud (first Ambassador since the conflict)
• 1994–1997: Sir Peter Hall
• 1997–2000: William Marsden
  William Marsden (diplomat)
  William Marsden is a former British diplomat...
  
  
• 2000–2004: Robin Christopher
• 2004–2008: John Hughes
  John Hughes (British diplomat)
  Dr. Edgar John Hughes is a British diplomat, the former British Ambassador to Argentina.Born in South Wales, Hughes went to the London School of Economics...
  
  
• 2008–present: Shan Morgan

External links

• British Embassy in Argentina