The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Mexico is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the United Mexican States, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Mexico.
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Incumbent Post vacant since May 2024 | |
Style | His/Her Excellency |
Status | Vacant |
Reports to | Foreign Secretary |
Residence | Mexico City |
Appointer | Monarch |
Term length | No term fixed |
Inaugural holder | Richard Pakenham Minister Plenipotentiary |
Formation | 1835 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary |
Final holder | Jon Benjamin |
Website | UK and Mexico |
The post was last held by Jon Benjamin until May 2024, when he was removed as the ambassador after a video emerged showing Benjamin aiming an assault rifle at a local embassy employee.[1] The post remains vacant.
Besides the embassy in Mexico City, the UK also maintains a consulate general in Cancun.[2]
Heads of mission
editEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Mexico
edit- 1835–1843: Richard Pakenham, Minister Plenipotentiary
- 1843: Percy William Doyle, Chargé d'Affaires
- 1843–1847: Charles Bankhead, Minister Plenipotentiary
- 1847–1850: Percy William Doyle, Chargé d'Affaires
- 1850–1851: Charles Bankhead, Chargé d'Affaires[3]
- 1851–1858: Percy William Doyle[4]
- 1858–1860: Loftus Charles Otway[5]
- 1860–1864: Charles Lennox Wyke[6]
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Mexico
edit- 1864–1867: Peter Campbell Scarlett[7]
Envoys Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico
edit- 1867–1884: No diplomatic relations following French intervention in Mexico
- 1884–1893: Sir Spenser St. John previously on special mission there[8]
- 1893–1894: Hon. Power Henry Le Poer Trench[9]
- 1894–1900: Sir Henry Dering[10]
- 1900–1906: George Greville[11]
- 1906–1911: Reginald Tower[12]
- 1911–1913: Sir Francis Stronge[13]
- 1913–1914: Sir Lionel Carden[14]
- 1914–1925: Diplomatic relations broken during Mexican Revolution
- 1925–1929: Sir Esmond Ovey
- 1929–1934: Edmund Monson[15][16]
- 1935–1937: John Murray[17][18]
- 1937–1938: Owen O'Malley[19]
- 1938–1941: Diplomatic relations broken due to Mexican oil expropriation
- 1941–1944: Charles Bateman[20]
Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mexico
edit- 1944–1947: Charles Bateman[21]
- 1947–1950: Sir Thomas Rapp
- 1950–1954: Sir John Taylor
- 1954–1956: Sir William Sullivan
- 1956–1960: Sir Andrew Noble
- 1960–1964: Sir Peter Garran
- 1964–1968: Sir Nicolas Cheetham
- 1968–1972: Sir Peter Hope
- 1972–1977: Sir John Galsworthy
- 1977–1981: Norman Ernest Cox
- 1981–1983: Sir Crispin Tickell
- 1983–1986: Sir Kenneth James
- 1986–1989: Sir John Morgan
- 1989–1992: Sir Michael Simpson-Orlebar
- 1992–1994: Sir Roger Hervey
- 1994–1998: Sir Adrian Beamish
- 1999–2002: Adrian Thorpe
- 2002–2005: Denise Holt
- 2005–2009: Giles Paxman
- 2009–2013: Judith Macgregor
- 2013–2018: Duncan Taylor[22]
- 2018–2021[update]: Corin Robertson[23][24]
- 2021–2024: Jon Benjamin[25]
References
edit- ^ "British ambassador to Mexico sacked after pointing gun at embassy employee". The Guardian. 31 May 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "British Consulate General Cancun". gov.uk.
- ^ J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 86.
- ^ "No. 21276". The London Gazette. 26 December 1851. p. 3569.
- ^ "No. 22102". The London Gazette. 26 February 1858. p. 970.
- ^ "No. 22351". The London Gazette. 27 January 1860. p. 306.
- ^ "No. 22910". The London Gazette. 11 November 1864. p. 5309.
- ^ "No. 25420". The London Gazette. 5 December 1884. p. 21.
- ^ "No. 26427". The London Gazette. 28 July 1893. p. 3.
- ^ "No. 26537". The London Gazette. 31 July 1894. p. 29.
- ^ "No. 27244". The London Gazette. 6 November 1900. p. 8.
- ^ "No. 27897". The London Gazette. 23 March 1906. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 28498". The London Gazette. 26 May 1911. p. 14.
- ^ "No. 28770". The London Gazette. 4 November 1913. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 33588". The London Gazette. 14 March 1930. p. 1641.
- ^ Sir Gilbert Clayton, An Arabian Diary (ed. Robert O. Collins, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1969)
- ^ MURRAY, John, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
- ^ Mr John Murray – British Minister In Mexico (obituary), The Times, London, 16 April 1937, page 16
- ^ O'MALLEY, Sir Owen St Clair, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
- ^ "No. 35414". The London Gazette. 9 January 1942. p. 194.
- ^ "No. 36552". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1944. p. 2707.
- ^ Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Mexico, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 10 May 2013
- ^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Mexico in October 2018". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 24 April 2018.
- ^ Corin Robertson (22 October 2018). "Primer día de trabajo y acabo de presentar las copias de mis cartas credenciales" [First day of work and I just presented the copies of my credentials] (in Spanish). British Embassy Mexico City.
- ^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Mexico: Jon Benjamin". GOV.UK. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
External links
edit- Mexico and the UK, gov.uk