List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic

Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic Britský velvyslanec v Česká republice
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
Incumbent Jan Thompson OBE since 2013
Style	Her Excellency
Residence	Prague
Appointer	Elizabeth II
Inaugural holder	Sir George Clerk
Formation	1919
Website	British Embassy Prague

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Czech Republic is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Czech Republic, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in the Czech Republic. The official title is Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Czech Republic.

Ambassadors

Ambassadors to Czechoslovakia

Name	Tenure Begin	Tenure End	British monarch	Czechoslovak president
Sir George Clerk	1919	1926	George V	Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Sir James Macleay	1926	1930
Sir Joseph Addison	1930	1936
Sir Charles Bentinck	1936	1937	George VI	Edvard Beneš
Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart	21 July 1940	1941
Frank Roberts (Chargé d'affaires)[1]	18 July 1941	1941
Sir Philip Nichols[2]	27 October 1941	1947
Sir Pierson Dixon	1948	1950		Klement Gottwald
Sir Philip Broadmead	1950	1953
Sir Derwent Kermode	1953	1955	Elizabeth II	Antonín Zápotocký
Sir Clinton Pelham	5 May 1955	1957
Sir Paul Grey	28 June 1957	1960		Antonín Novotný
Sir Cecil Parrott	1960	1966
Sir William Barker	1966	1968
Sir Howard Smith	1968	1971		Ludvík Svoboda
Ronald Scrivener	1971	1974
Edward Willan	1974	1977		Ludvík Svoboda→ Gustáv Husák
Peter Male	1977	1980		Gustáv Husák
John Rich[3]	1980	1985
Sir Stephen Barrett	1985	1988
Laurence O'Keeffe	1988	1991		Gustáv Husák→ Václav Havel
David Brighty	1991	1993		Václav Havel

Ambassadors to the Czech Republic

Name	Tenure Begin	Tenure End	British monarch	Czech president
David Brighty^[a]	1993	1994	Elizabeth II	Václav Havel
Sir Michael Burton[4]	1994	1997
David Broucher	1997	2001
Anne Pringle	2001	2004		Václav Havel→ Václav Klaus
Linda Duffield	2004	2009		Václav Klaus
Sian MacLeod	2009	2013
Jan Thompson[5]	2013			Miloš Zeman

See also

• Czech Republic–United Kingdom relations

Notes

a. ^{^} Brighty continued as both ambassador to the Czech Republic, and as non-resident ambassador to Slovakia after the 1993 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, until 1994, when he left the post and was replaced by Sir Michael Burton as ambassador to the Czech Republic and by Michael Bates as ambassador to Slovakia.

Citations

1. British Foreign Office Political Correspondence page xxvii
2. "NICHOLS, Sir Philip Bouverie Bowyer". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
3. "RICH, John Rowland". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 2008-10-18.; The London Gazette: no. 48325. p. 13693. 1 October 1980. Retrieved 2013-01-7.
4. "BURTON, Sir Michael (St Edmund)". Who's Who 2009. A & C Black. 2008. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
5. Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 25 April 2013

External links

• British Embassy Prague