List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Oman

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Oman is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Oman, and is the head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Muscat.

Until 1971 the British representative in Muscat was a Consul-General. Following the accession of Sultan Qaboos in 1970, the Sultan agreed that the Consulate-General should be raised to an embassy, and the first British Ambassador (and the first Ambassador of any country) to the Sultanate, Donald Hawley, presented his credentials to the Sultan on 22 July 1971.^[1]

British Ambassadors to Oman

• 1971–1974: Donald Hawley^[2]
• 1975–1979: Charles Treadwell^[3]
• 1979–1981: Ivor Lucas^[4]
• 1981–1986: Duncan Slater
• 1986–1990: Robert Alston
• 1990–1994: Sir Terence Clark
• 1994–1999: Sir Richard Muir
• 1999–2002: Sir Ivan Callan
• 2002–2005: Stuart Laing
• 2005–2011: Dr Noel Guckian
• 2011–2014: Jamie Bowden^[5]
• 2014–present: Jonathan Wilks^[6]

References

1. Worral, James, State Building and Counter Insurgency in Oman: Political, Military and Diplomatic Relations at the End of Empire, I.B. Tauris, 2013, pp.138-140
2. The London Gazette, 21 September 1971
3. The London Gazette, 6 May 1975
4. The London Gazette, 24 July 1979
5. Jamie Bowden, gov.uk
6. Jonathan Wilks, gov.uk

External links

• UK and Oman, gov.uk