List of high commissioners of the United Kingdom to New Zealand
The high commissioner of the United Kingdom to New Zealand is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in New Zealand, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in New Zealand. As the United Kingdom and New Zealand are fellow members of the Commonwealth of Nations, their diplomatic relations are at governmental level, rather than between heads of state. Thus, the countries exchange high commissioners, rather than ambassadors.
The British high commissioner to New Zealand is also the non-resident governor of the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, a British Overseas Territory, and formerly non-resident high commissioner to the Independent State of Samoa.[1] Besides the high commission in Wellington, the UK government maintains a consulate general in Auckland.[2]
List of high commissioners
The following persons have served as British high commissioner to New Zealand since 1939:
- 1939–1945: Sir Harry Batterbee
- 1945–1949: Sir Patrick Duff
- 1949–1953: Sir Roy Price
- 1953–1957: General Sir Geoffry Scoones
- 1957–1959: Sir George Mallaby
- 1959–1963: Sir Francis Cumming-Bruce
- 1969–1973: Sir Arthur Galsworthy
- 1973–1975: Sir David Aubrey Scott
- 1976–1980: Sir Harold Smedley
- 1980–1984: Sir Richard Stratton
- 1984–1987: Terence Daniel O'Leary
- 1987–1990: Robin Byatt
- 1990–1994: Sir David Moss
- 1994–1998: Robert Alston
- 1998–2001: Martin Williams
- 2001–2006: Richard Fell[3]
- 2006–2010: George Fergusson[4]
- 2010–2014: Victoria Treadell[5]
- 2014–2017: Jonathan Sinclair[6]
- 2018–2022: Laura Clarke[7]
- 2022–present[update]: Iona Thomas
See also
References
- ^ "British High Commission Wellington". gov.uk.
- ^ "British Consulate General Auckland". gov.uk.
- ^ "Change of High Commissioner to New Zealand". Press release. Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 18 February 2002. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011.
- ^ "Change of High Commissioner to New Zealand". Press release. Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 8 February 2008. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011.
- ^ "Change of High Commissioner to New Zealand". Press release. Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 10 September 2009. Archived from the original on 19 October 2009.
- ^ "Jonathan Sinclair". gov.uk.
- ^ "Change of British High Commissioner to New Zealand". Foreign & Commonwealth Office. 13 September 2017.
External links
- UK and New Zealand, gov.uk
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- New Zealand Constitution Act 1846
- New Zealand Constitution Act 1852
- Statute of Westminster 1931
- Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947
- New Zealand Constitution Amendment Act 1947
- New Zealand Constitution Amendment (Request and Consent) Act 1947
- British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948
- Constitution Act 1986
- Imperial Laws Application Act 1988
- Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
- Treaty of Bern
- Berne Convention (1906)
- International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic
- Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications
- International Opium Convention
- Paris Convention of 1919
- Declaration recognising the Right to a Flag of States having no Sea-coast
- International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children
- Svalbard Treaty
- Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War (1929)
- Geneva Convention on the Wounded and Sick (1929)