History

Early diplomats

• 1824-1839: Thomas Samuel Hood
• 1846-1847: Adolphus Turner Chargé d'Affaires
  • 1848: 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...
    
     Special Mission
• 1847-1851: Captain Robert Gore Chargé d'Affaires, buried at The British Cemetery, Montevideo

• 1851-1853: Hon. Frederick Bruce
  Frederick Wright-Bruce
  Sir Frederick Wright-Bruce, GCB was a British diplomat.Frederick Bruce was the youngest of the three sons of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and his second wife Elizabeth, youngest daughter of James Townshend Oswald of Dunnikier, Fife. He was born at Bromhall, Fife, on 14 April 1814, and on 9 Feb...
  
   Chargé d'Affaires
• 1853-1854: George John Robert Gordon Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General
• Unknown: Theodore Lemm, buried at The British Cemetery, Montevideo
• 1871: Major James St. John Munro consul, buried at The British Cemetery, Montevideo
• 1879: Sir 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...
  
   Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul-General
• 1879-1884: 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...
  
  
• 1884-1888: William Gifford Palgrave
  William Gifford Palgrave
  William Gifford Palgrave was an Arabic scholar, born at Westminster, England. He was the son of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H. and Elizabeth Turner....
  
   (1826–1888). In 1884 he was appointed Minister Resident and Consul-General to Uruguay, where he served until his death in 1888
• 1888: Charles John Ayre, buried at The British Cemetery, Montevideo
• unknow: Allan McDonald, Consul to HM Government at Montevideo, buried at The British Cemetery, Montevideo
• 1897: E Thornton, Chargé d'Affaires
• 1903: Walter Baring - British Minister & Consul General at Montevideo
• 1903: Herbert A R Harvey - British Consul at Montevideo

Ambassadors to Uruguay

• 1949–1953: Sir Douglas Howard
• 1955 November 12: Reginald Keith Jopson
• 1961: Sir Malcolm Sibourne Henderson
• 1961–1966: Henry Norman Brain
• 1966–1969: Sir Keith Unwin
• 1969–1972: Geoffrey Jackson
  Geoffrey Jackson
  Sir Geoffrey Holt Seymour Jackson, KCMG was a British diplomat and writer.Jackson received his education at Bolton School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He entered the Foreign Service in 1937, his first ambassadorship coming in 1957, a post in Honduras. In 1969, he became ambassador in Uruguay...
  
  
• 1971–1972: James Hennessy (Chargé d'Affaires)
• 1972–1977: Peter Oliver
• 1977–1980: William Peters
• 1980–1983: Patricia Hutchinson
• 1983–1986: Charles Wallace
• 1986–1989: Eric Vines
• 1989–1991: Colum John Sharkey
• 1991–1994: Donald Lamont
• 1995–1998: Robert Hendrie
• 1998–2001: Andrew Murray
• 2001–2005: John Everard
  John Everard (diplomat)
  John Everard is a former British diplomat. He was formerly the British Ambassador to Belarus, British Ambassador to Uruguay, and British Ambassador to North Korea.-References:...
  
  
• 2005–2008: Hugh Salvesen
• 2008–present: Patrick Mullee

External links

• British Embassy in Uruguay
• The British Cemetery, Montevideo