List of British ambassadors in Saudi Arabia

The list includes the head of the British diplomatic mission in Jeddah since 1925. The official title of ambassador is: Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia .

In 1926, Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud and his Wahhabi warriors attacked the Kingdom of Hejaz and united the Hejaz with the Najd as an essential part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia founded in 1932 . In 1927, in the Agreement of Jeddah , Great Britain gave the area along the west coast of Arabia conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the First World War , called the British Protectorate of Arabia, to Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud and guaranteed the independence of Arabia.

Appointment / accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited during the government of	Leave post
1925	Stanley Rupert Jordan	executive consul in Jeddah	Stanley Baldwin	Hussein ibn Ali (Hejaz)	1926
1926	Norman Mayers	Consul in Jeddah	Stanley Baldwin	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz	1927
1927	Herbert Jakins	Consul in Jeddah	Stanley Baldwin	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz	1929
December 1929	William Bond	(* 1894) Chargé d'affaires	Stanley Baldwin	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz	May 1, 1930
May 1, 1930	Andrew Ryan		Ramsay MacDonald	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz	1936
1936	Reader Bullard		Stanley Baldwin	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz	December 1939
January 1, 1940	Francis Hugh William Stonehewer Bird		Winston Churchill	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz
August 12, 1943	Stanley Rupert Jordan		Winston Churchill	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz	February 7, 1945
October 20, 1945	Laurence Grafftey-Smith		Clement Attlee	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz	1947
October 31, 1947	Alan Charles Trott		Clement Attlee	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz
November 2, 1951	Georg Clinton Pelham		Clement Attlee	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz
May 14, 1955	Harold Beeley		Anthony Eden	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz
October 24, 1955	Roderick Parkes		Anthony Eden	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz	17th November 1956
17th November 1956	diplomatic relationship broken		Anthony Eden	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz	April 19, 1963
1963	Thomas Frank Brenchley	Chargé d'affaires	Anthony Eden	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz
April 19, 1963	Colin Crowe		Harold Macmillan	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz
October 31, 1964	Morgan Charles Garnet Man		Harold Macmillan	Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz
1968	Horace Phillips	rejected by the Saudi government	Harold Wilson	Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz
July 23, 1968	Willie Morris		Harold Wilson	Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz	1972
1972	Alan Keir Rothnie		Edward Heath	Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz	1976
1976	John Wilton		James Callaghan	Chalid ibn Abd al-Aziz	1979
1979	James Craig		Margaret Thatcher	Chalid ibn Abd al-Aziz	1984
1984	Patrick Wright, Baron Wright of Richmond		Margaret Thatcher	Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz	1986
1986	Stephen Egerton		Margaret Thatcher	Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz	1989
1989	Alan Munro		Margaret Thatcher	Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz	1993
1993	David Gore-Booth		John Major	Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz	1996
1996	Andrew Green		John Major	Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz	2000
2000	Derek Plumbly		Tony Blair	Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz	2003
2003	Sherard Cowper-Coles		Tony Blair	Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz	2006
2006	William Patey		Tony Blair	Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz	2010
2010	Tom Phillips		David Cameron	Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stanley Rupert Jordan : Page 431: Between 1943 and 1945 Anglo-American relations were strained by the struggle for supremacy in Saudi Arabia and for her oil reserves, culminating in January 1945 with the State Department successvully demanding the removal of the British Minister, Jordan , for supposedly unfairly hindering American interests in Saudi Arabia. 21 Robert Vitalis, America's kingdom: mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier , p. 79
2. ^ Clive Leatherdale, Britain and Saudi Arabia, 1925-1939: the Imperial Oasis , p. 365
3. ↑ Great Britain. Foreign Office, The Foreign Office list and diplomatic and consular year book, Harrison and Sons, 1964