List of Costa Rican Ambassadors to the United Kingdom

The embassy is located at 14 Lancaster Gate, London .

On February 28, 1848, the governments established diplomatic relations with the signing of the Tratado Toledo-Chatfield .

Agrément / Appointment / Accreditation (Diplomacy)	ambassador	Remarks	appointed by	accredited during the government of	Leave post
1849	Felipe Francisco Molina y Bedoya		Juan Rafael Mora Porras	John Russell, 1st Earl Russell	1855
1870	Carlos Gutiérrez		Bruno Carranza Ramírez	Benjamin Disraeli	1873
1873	Luis Diego Sáenz Carazo		Rafael Barroeta Baca	Benjamin Disraeli	1873
1873	Leon Fernández Bonilla		Rafael Barroeta Baca		1873
1873	Carlos Gutiérrez		Rafael Barroeta Baca		1874
1876	Francisco María Iglesias Llorente		Aniveto Esquivel Saenz		1876
1882	Leon Fernández Bonilla	concurrente	Próspero Fernández Oreamuno		William Ewart Gladstone	1887
1887	Manuel María de Peralta y Alfaro	concurrente	Bernardo Soto y Alfaro	1898
1913	Wenceslao de la Guardia Fábrega	(* April 11, 1859 in Santiago de Veraguas)	Cleto González Viquez	Herbert Henry Asquith	1919
1945	Fernando Soto Harrison		Teodoro Picado Michalski	Winston Churchill	1946
1950	Luis Dobles Segreda	Based in Madrid	Luis Rafael de la Trinidad Otilio Ulate Blanco		1950
1951	Antonio Facio Ulloa	Based in Madrid			1951
1954	Virginia Prestinary de Gallegos		José Figueres Ferrer		1956
1956	Humberto Pacheco Coto	(* 1911; † 2000) embassy was upgraded to embassy.	José Figueres Ferrer	Anthony Eden	1958
1958	Alfredo Alfaro Sotela		Mario Echandi Jiménez	Harold Macmillan	1962
1962	María del Carmen Gutiérrez Chamberlain de Chittenden		Francisco José Orlich Bolmarcich	Harold Macmillan	1966
1966	Claudia Cascante de Rojas		José Joaquín Trejos Fernández	Harold Wilson	1967
1970	Manuel G. Escalante Durán	(* 1905) 28. Apr. 1943-29. May 1944: Envoy to Washington, DC	José Figueres Ferrer	Edward Heath	1974
1974	Eduardo Echeverría Villafranca	also accredited in London	Daniel Oduber Quirós	Harold Wilson	1977
1977	Fernando Soto Harrison		Daniel Oduber Quirós	James Callaghan	1978
1978	Carlos Manuel Gutiérrez Cañas		Rodrigo Carazo Odio		1981
1982	Jorge Borbón Zeller		Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez	Margaret Thatcher	1986
1986	Marcelo Martén Sancho		Óscar Arias Sánchez		1988
1989	Miguel Yamuni Tabush				1990
1990	Luis Rafael Tinoco Alavrado			Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier	John Major	1994
1994	Jorge Borbón Zeller	second term	José María Figueres Olsen	John Major	1998
Dec 17, 1998	Rodolfo Gutiérrez Carranza		Miguel Angel Rodríguez Echeverría	Tony Blair
Jan. 9, 2007	María del Pilar Saborío de Rocafort		Gordon Brown

Individual evidence

1. ^ Virginia Prestinary de Gallegos . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1959 ( online ).
2. ↑ María del Pilar Saborío de Rocafort (PDF)
3. ↑ Memoria anual del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto . Costa Rica, 2000, p. 102 f.