List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Senegal

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Senegal is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Senegal.^[1]

List of heads of mission

Vice-Consuls

• 1872–1879: Cléomenes Pillot
• 1879–1887: Ernest Simon Montoux
• 1887–1888: Edouard Rastoul
• 1888–1894: Capt Pierre Gaston Faoche
• 1894–1896: Capt Ellan Henry Maclean

Consuls

• 1896–1897: Capt Ellan Henry Maclean
• 1897–1902: Capt Leonard Robert Sunkersett
• 1902–1905: Capt Charles Francis Cromie, for French Western Africa, and for Republic of Liberia^[2]

Consuls-General

• 1905–1908: Capt Charles Francis Cromie, for French West Africa
• 1908–1909: Maj John Grey Baldwin, for French West Africa
• 1909–1916: Maj Charles Braithwaite Wallis, also for the Sudan
• 1916–1920: Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham, (Actg Consul General)
• 1920–1928: Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham
• 1928–1931: Eric Cunliffe Buxton
• 1931–1940: Victor Vincent Cusden
• July 1940– Jan 1943 Post closed (Vichy administration in Dakar)
• 1943–1945: Ernest William Meiklereid
• 1945–1951: Hector Bruce Henderson
• 1951–1954: Donald Cameron
• 1954–1956: Frank Chatterton Butler
• 1956–1959: Alan Trevor Oldham, also the Portuguese Guinea
• 1959–1960: John Hugh Adam Watson

Ambassadors

• 1960–1962: Adam Watson, Ambassador to Federation of Mali and Mauritania (later Ambassador to Senegal, Mauritania and Togo)
• 1962–1966: John Peck, also Mauritania
• 1966–1971: John Tahourdin, also Mauritania, Mali and Guinea
• 1971–1973: Ivor Porter, ditto
• 1973–1976: Denzil Dunnett, ditto
• 1976–1979: John Powell-Jones, also Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau
• 1979–1982: William Squire, ditto
• 1982–1985: Laurence O'Keeffe, ditto
• 1985–1990: John Macrae, ditto
• 1990–1993: Roger Beetham, also Mali, Guinea, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau
• 1993–1997: Alan Furness, ditto
• 1997–2000: David Snoxell, ditto
• 2000–2004: Edward Alan Burner, also Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde
• 2004–2006: Peter Newall, ditto
• 2007–2011: Christopher Trott, ditto
• 2011–2015: John Marshall,^[3] also Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde
• 2015–present: George Hodgson,^[4] also Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde

References

1. "Previous ambassadors to Senegal". Retrieved 2013-01-05.
2. The London Gazette: no. 27401. p. 581. 28 January 1902.
3. Our Ambassador at the Wayback Machine (archived 31 March 2012) – British Embassy Dakar
4. "George Hodgson". gov.uk.

External links

• UK and Senegal, gov.uk