List of high commissioners of the United Kingdom to Canada

The high commissioner of the United Kingdom to Canada is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Canada and is in charge of the British diplomatic mission to Canada.

As fellow members of the

The offices of the British High Commission are at 80 Elgin Street in Ottawa, which was built in 1964 on the site of the old Grand Union Hotel.

The British High Commissioner's residence is Earnscliffe in Ottawa on Sussex Drive. The house was built in 1855, was later occupied by Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, and was bought in 1930 by the first British High Commissioner to Canada, Sir William Clark.

The incumbent high commissioner is Susannah Goshko, who assumed the office in September 2021.^[1]

List of heads of mission

High commissioners to Canada

• 1928–1934: Sir William Clark
• 1934–1938: Sir Francis Floud
• 1938–1941: Sir Gerald Campbell
• 1941–1946: Malcolm MacDonald
• 1946–1952: Sir Alexander Clutterbuck
• 1952–1956: Sir Archibald Nye
• 1956–1961:
  Sir Saville Garner
• 1961–1963: The Viscount Amory
• 1963–1968: Sir Henry Lintott
• 1968–1970: Sir Colin Crowe
• 1970–1974: Sir Peter Hayman
• 1974–1978: Sir John Johnston
• 1978–1981: Sir John Ford
• 1981–1984: The Lord Moran
• 1984–1987: Sir Derek Day
• 1987–1989: Sir Alan Urwick
• 1989–1992: Sir Brian Fall
• 1992–1996: Sir Nicholas Bayne
• 1996–2000: Sir Anthony Goodenough
• 2000–2003: Sir Andrew Burns
• 2003–2006: David Reddaway
• 2006–2011: Anthony Cary
• 2011–2012: Andrew Pocock
• 2012–2013: Corin Robertson (acting)
• 2013–2017: Howard Drake^[2]
• 2017–2021: Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque^[3]
• 2021^[update]–present: Susannah Goshko^[4]

See also

• British High Commission, Ottawa
• Canada–United Kingdom relations

References

External links

• British High Commission Ottawa