List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Brazil
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The Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Brazil 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 Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission
Diplomatic mission
A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organisation present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation in the receiving state...

 in Brazil. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil.

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil

  • 1826–1828: Sir Robert Gordon
    Robert Gordon (diplomat)
    Sir Robert Gordon GCB GCH PC was a British diplomat.Gordon was a younger son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo and a brother of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen...

  • 1828–1832: 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...

    • 1828: Percy, Viscount Strangford
      Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
      Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, GCB, GCH was an Anglo-Irish diplomat.-Personal life:He was the son of Lionel Smythe, 5th Viscount Strangford and Mary Eliza Philipse....

      , special mission
  • 1832–1835: Stephen Henry Fox
  • 1835–1838: Hamilton Charles James Hamilton
  • 1838–1847: (?): 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...

    , Chargé D'Affaires.
    • 1842: Henry Ellis, Extraordinary and special mission, (concerning slave trade).
  • 1847–1850: The Lord 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...

  • 1850–1851: James Hudson
  • 1851–1853: Henry Southern
  • 1853–1855: Henry Francis Howard
  • 1855–1858: Peter Campbell Scarlett
    Peter Campbell Scarlett
    Peter Campbell Scarlett CB, DL , styled The Honourable from 1830, was a British diplomat.-Background:...

  • 1865–1867: Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Thornton
    Edward Thornton (diplomat)
    Sir Edward Thornton KCB was a prominent British diplomat, who held posts in Latin America, Turkey, Russia, and served for fourteen years as Minister to the United States.-Early career:...

  • 1867–1879: G B Mathew (later Sir G B Mathew)
  • 1879–1881: 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...

     (later Rt. Hon. Sir Clare Ford)
  • 1881–1885: Edwin Corbett
  • 1885: Sidney Locock (died on 30 August 1885, before taking up the post)
  • 1885–1888: Hugh MacDonell (later Rt. Hon. Sir Hugh MacDonell)
  • 1888–1891: George H. Wyndham (later Sir George Wyndham)
  • 1891–1894: George H Wyndham (new investiture)
  • 1894–1900: Constantine Phipps (later Sir Constantine Phipps)
  • 1900–1906: Sir Henry Dering, Bart
  • 1906–1915: W H D Haggard (later Sir W H D Haggard)
  • 1915–1919: Arthur R. Peel (later Sir Arthur Peel)

Ambassadors

  • 1919–1921: Sir Ralph Spencer Paget
    Ralph Paget
    Sir Ralph Spencer Paget KCMG, CVO, PC was a diplomat in the British Foreign Service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to Brazil in 1918...

  • 1921–1925: Sir John A. C. Tilley
    John Tilley (diplomat)
    Sir John Anthony Cecil Tilley PC, GCMG, GCVO, CB was a British diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Brazil from 1921 to 1925, and Ambassador to Japan from 1926 to 1931.-Early life:...

  • 1925–1930: Sir Beilby Francis Alston
  • 1930–1935: Sir William Seeds
    William Seeds
    Sir William Seeds KCMG was a British diplomat. He served as Ambassador to both Russia and Brazil.-Background and education:Sir William Seeds was born in Dublin, Ireland, on the 27th June 1882, to an Ulster Protestant family. He was the only son of Lady Kaye and Robert Seeds QC, the Queen’s...

  • 1935–1939: Sir Hugh Gurney
  • 1939–1941: Sir Geoffrey George Knox
  • 1941–1944: Sir Noel Hughes Havelock Charles
    Noel Charles
    Sir Noel Hughes Havelock Charles, 3rd Baronet was a British diplomat.Charles was the younger son of Sir Havelock Charles, 1st Baronet, and succeeded his elder brother in the title in 1936. He served as British Ambassador to Brazil from 1941 to 1944 and as British Ambassador to Italy from 1944 to...

  • 1944–1947: Sir Donald St Clair Gainer
  • 1947–1952: Sir Nevile Montagu Butler
  • 1952–1956: Sir Geoffrey Thompson
  • 1956–1958: Sir Geoffrey Harrison :ru:Харрисон, Джеффри
  • 1958–1963: Sir Geoffrey Wallinger
  • 1963–1966: Sir Leslie Fry
  • 1966–1969: Sir John Russell
  • 1969–1973: Sir David Hunt
  • 1973–1977: Derek Sherbourne Lindsell Dodson (later Sir Derek Dodson)
  • 1977–1979: Sir Norman Statham
  • 1979–1981: George Edmund Hall
  • 1981–1984: George William Harding (later Sir William Harding)
  • 1984–1987: John Burns Ure (later Sir John Ure)
  • 1987–1992: Michael John Newington
  • 1992–1995: Peter Williams Heap (later Sir Peter Heap)
  • 1995–1999: Donald Keith Haskell
  • 1999–2004: Sir Roger Bridgland Bone
  • 2004–2008: Dr. Peter Collecott
    Peter Collecott
    Peter Salmon Collecott, CMG, was the British Ambassador to Brazil from 2004 to 2008.He is a member of ADRg Ambassadors.-Biography:*Born on 8 October 1950.*Graduated in Mathematics from St John's College, Cambridge, where he was Captain of Soccer....

  • 2008–present: Alan Charlton

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