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Diplomatic relations

British diplomatic presence in Cambodia

  • 1945 - no representative
  • 1946 - 1947 Ernest William Meiklereid via Saigon
  • 1948 - 1950 Frank Stannard Gibbs via Saigon
  • 1950 - Indo-China War
  • 1951 - Frank Stannard Gibbs - Saigon in Vietnam; Min. Plen., En. Ex and Consul-Gerenal
  • 5 May 1951: Hubert Aston Graves Min. Plen., En. Ex at Saigon, Vientiane and Phnom Penh
  • 11 October 1953: Richard Purdon Heppel
  • 07 September 1956: Henry Norman Brain
  • 13 July 1958: Frederic Francis Garner
  • 22 August 1961: Peter Murray
  • 25 June 1964: Leslie Fielding
  • 21 September 1966: Harold Arthur Neville Brown
  • 5 July 1970: Anthony James Williams
  • 14 March 1973: John Earnest Powell Jones
  • 18 February 1975: John Christopher Wyndewe Bushell
  • 1975 – All staff withdrawn from post. There was no further HMG representation until the appointment on 7 Nov 1991 of David Allan Burns as Representative to the Supreme National Court of Cambodia with the personal rank of Ambassador.
  • 24 June 1994: Mr Paul Reddicliffe
  • 29 July 1997: Mr Christopher George Edgar
  • 17 December 2000: Mr Stephen John Bridges
  • 13 January 2005: Mr David George Reader

The Foreign Office Lists have the UK representative in Phnom Penh listed as 'Ambassador and Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary' from 1951 onwards, except from 1976 to 1994.




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