List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Egypt

British Ambassador to Egypt سفير المملكة المتحدة لدى مصر
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
Incumbent Gareth Bayley since 2018
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Cairo
Appointer	King Charles III
Inaugural holder	George Baldwin British Consul-General to Egypt 1786
Website	www.gov.uk/government/world/egypt

The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Egypt is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Egypt, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Egypt. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt.

Under the British occupation of Egypt (1882–1956), the British consul-general, high commissioner, or ambassador effectively ruled Egypt.[1]

List of heads of mission

Consuls-General

• 1786–1796: George Baldwin[2] (post abolished in 1793 but letter did not reach Baldwin until 1796)
• 1803–1804: Charles Lock (appointed but died en route to Egypt)
• 1804–1815: Ernest Missett (Agent, then Consul-General)[3]
• 1815–1827: Henry Salt
• 1827–1833: John Barker (acting until 1829)
• 1833–1839: Patrick Campbell
• 1839–1841: Sir George Lloyd Hodges
• 1841–1846: Charles John Barnett
• 1846–1853: Charles Murray
• 1853–1858: Frederick Wright-Bruce
• 1858–1865: Robert Gilmour Colquhoun
• 1865–1876: Edward Stanton
• 1876–1879: Hussey Vivian
• 1879–1883: Edward Malet
• 1883–1907: Sir Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer[4]
• 1907–1911: Sir Eldon Gorst with rank of Minister Plenipotentiary
• 1911–1914: Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener with rank of Minister Plenipotentiary[5]

High Commissioners

• 1914–1915: Sir Milne Cheetham
• 1915–1917: Sir Henry McMahon
• 1917–1919: Sir Francis Reginald Wingate
• 1919–1925: Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
• 1925–1929: George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd
• 1929–1933: Sir Percy Loraine
• 1934–1936: Sir Miles Lampson

Ambassadors

• 1936–1946: Sir Miles Lampson
• 1946–1950: Sir Ronald Ian Campbell
• 1950–1955: Sir Ralph Stevenson
• 1955–1956: Sir Humphrey Trevelyan
• 1956–1959: Break in relations due to Suez Crisis
• 1959–1961: Sir Colin Crowe (Chargé d'affaires)
• 1961–1964: Sir Harold Beeley
• 1964–1965: Sir George Humphrey Middleton
• 1965–1967: Break in relations over Rhodesia
• 1967–1969: Sir Harold Beeley
• 1969–1973: Sir Richard Ashton Beaumont
• 1973–1975: Sir Philip Adams[6]
• 1975–1979: Sir Willie Morris[6]
• 1979–1985: Sir Michael Scott Weir[6]
• 1985–1987: Sir Alan Urwick[6]
• 1987–1992: Sir James Adams[6]
• 1992–1995: Christopher William Long[6]
• 1995–1999: Sir David Blatherwick
• 1999–2001: Sir Graham Boyce
• 2001–2003: Sir John Sawers
• 2003–2007: Sir Derek Plumbly
• 2007–2011: Sir Dominic Asquith
• 2011–2014: James Wilfrid Watt
• 2014–2018: John Casson[7]
• 2018-2021: Sir Geoffrey Adams[8]
• 2021–present^[update]: Gareth Bayley[9]

See also

• Egypt–United Kingdom relations
• List of ambassadors of Egypt to the United Kingdom
• British foreign policy in the Middle East

References

1. A. D. Roberts, The Cambridge History of Africa, 1986, ISBN 0521225051, 7:742
2. "Baldwin, George". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1165. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. Bosworth, C.E., Henry Salt, Consul in Egypt 1816-1827 and Pioneer Egyptologist, University of Manchester, 1974
4. Roger Owen, Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul (Oxford UP, 2005) Online review.
5. Sydney A. Moseley, With Kitchener in Cairo (1917) Online
6. Craig, James (27 July 2016). Shemlan: A History of the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies. Springer. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-349-14413-6.
7. Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Egypt, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 23 June 2014
8. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Egypt in September 2018". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 5 September 2018.
9. "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Egypt Gareth Bayley". Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. 18 May 2021.

• "Previous Ambassadors". British Embassy Cairo. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012.
• Raafat, Samir (29 April 1999). "Bayt al Lurd (The British Embassy)". Cairo Times. Limassol, Cyprus: Dispatch Publications. OCLC 37395519. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2008.