The ambassador of the United Kingdom to Costa Rica is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Costa Rica, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in San José.
Heads of mission The Republic of Costa Rica proclaimed its independence in 1838. The United Kingdom was represented intermittently by chargés d'affaires until 1884, and from then until 1908 by ministers based in Guatemala. From 1908 until 1945 the Minister to Panama was also non-resident Minister to Costa Rica.
Early diplomats 1849 and 1850-1852: Frederick Chatfield Chargé d'AffairesS. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary 1945–1948: Frederick Coultas 1948–1951: Bernard Sullivan 1951–1952: Henry Livingston 1953–1956: Clarence Ezard
Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary 1956: Clarence Ezard 1956–1961: David Mill Irving 1961–1967: Frederic Garner 1968–1972: Ian Hurrell 1972–1974: John Blackwell 1974–1979: Keith Hamylton Jones 1979–1982: Michael Brown 1982–1986: Peter Summerscale 1986–1989: Michael Daly 1989–1992: William Marsden 1992–1995: Louise Croll 1995–1997: Mike Jackson 1997–1999: Alan GreenIn British Ambassadors list by Colin Mackie. No other information 1999–2002: Peter Spiceley 2002–2006: Georgina Butler 2006–2011: Thomas Kennedy 2011–2015: Sharon Campbell
2015–2020: Ross Denny 2020–present: Ben Lyster-Binns
References
External links UK and Costa Rica, gov.uk