List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Brazil

British Ambassador to Brazil
Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
Incumbent Stephanie Al-Qaq since November 2022
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Brasília
Appointer	King Charles III
Inaugural holder	Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet (First Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil) Hugh Wyndham (First Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of Brazil) Sir Ralph Paget (First Ambassador to Brazil)
Formation	1826 First Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil 1891 First Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of Brazil 1919 First Ambassador to Brazil
Website	UK and Brazil

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

Besides the embassy and consulate-general in Brasília, the UK government is represented by consulates-general in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife, and Belo Horizonte.

List of heads of mission

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil

1826–0000: Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet, consul general and chargé
1826–1828: Sir Robert Gordon
1828–1832: John, Lord Ponsonby
1828–0000: Percy, Viscount Strangford, special mission
1832–1835: Stephen Henry Fox
1835–1838: Hamilton Charles James Hamilton
1838–1847: William Gore Ouseley, chargé
1842–0000: Henry Ellis, extraordinary and special mission
1847–1850: The Lord Howden
1850–1851: James Hudson
1851–1853: Henry Southern
1853–1855: Henry Francis Howard
1855–1858: Peter Campbell Scarlett
1859–1863: William Dougal Christie
1865–1867: Sir Edward Thornton
1867–1879: George Buckley-Mathew
1879–1881: Clare Ford
1881–1885: Edwin Corbett
1885–1888: Hugh MacDonell
1888–1891: Hugh Wyndham

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of Brazil

1891–1894: Hugh Wyndham (later Sir Hugh Wyndham)
1894–1900: Constantine Phipps (later Sir Constantine Phipps)
1900–1906: Sir Henry Dering, 9th Bt.
1906–1915: Sir William Henry Doveton Haggard
1915–1919: Sir Arthur Peel

Ambassador

1919–1921: Sir Ralph Paget
1921–1925: Sir John Tilley
1925–1930: Sir Beilby Alston
1930–1935: Sir William Seeds
1935–1939: Sir Hugh Gurney
1939–1941: Sir Geoffrey Knox
1941–1944: Sir Noel Charles
1944–1947: Sir Donald Gainer
1947–1952: Sir Nevile Butler
1952–1956: Sir Geoffrey Thompson
1956–1958: Sir Geoffrey Harrison
1958–1963: Sir Geoffrey Wallinger
1963–1966: Sir Leslie Fry
1966–1969: Sir John Russell
1969–1973: Sir David Hunt
1973–1977: Sir Derek Dodson
1977–1979: Sir Norman Statham
1979–1981: George Edmund Hall
1981–1984: William Harding (later Sir William Harding)
1984–1987: John Ure (later Sir John Ure)
1987–1992: Michael Newington
1992–1995: Peter Heap (later Sir Peter Heap)
1995–1999: Donald Haskell
1999–2004: Sir Roger Bone
2004–2008: Peter Collecott
2008–2013: Alan Charlton
2013–2017: Alex Ellis
2017–2020: Vijay Rangarajan
2021–2022: Peter Wilson
2022: Melanie Hopkins (acting)
2022–present: Stephanie Al-Qaq

References

"British Embassy Brasilia". Retrieved 10 January 2017.
^ J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 87.
"No. 21245". The London Gazette. 16 September 1851. p. 2360.
"No. 21440". The London Gazette. 17 May 1853. p. 1397.
"No. 21853". The London Gazette. 26 February 1856. p. 698.
Westbrook, Roger (28 November 2003). "Sir Derek Dodson". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Brazil, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 12 October 2012
"Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Brazil". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 24 November 2016.
"Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Brazil: January 2021". GOV.UK. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
"Melanie Hopkins OBE". GOV.UK. Retrieved 6 October 2022.

External links

UK and Brazil, gov.uk
Previous Ambassadors (up to 2008), British Embassy Brasilia

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