Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations typically exchange High Commissioners, rather than Ambassadors. Though there are a few technical differences, they are in practice one and the same office. The following persons have served as British High Commissioner to Nigeria.
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
- 1960–1963: Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head
- 1963–1966: The Hon. Sir Francis Cumming-Bruce
- 1966–1969: Sir David Hunt
- 1969–1971: Sir Leslie Glass
- 1971–1974: Sir Cyril Pickard
- 1974–1976: Sir Martin Le Quesne
- 1976–1977: ?
- 1977–1978: Sir Sam Falle
- 1977–1979: ?
- 1979–1983: Sir Mervyn Brown
- 1983–1984: Sir William Erskine Hamilton Whyte
- 1984–1986: ?
- 1986–1988: Sir Martin Ewans
- 1988–1991: Sir Brian Barder
- 1991–1995: Christopher MacRea
- 1995–1997: John Thorold Masefield
- 1997–2001: Sir Graham Burton
- 2001–2004: Sir Philip Thomas
- 2004–2007: Sir Richard Gozney
- 2007–2010: Robert Dewar
- 2011–2012: Andrew Lloyd
- 2012–present: Dr Andrew Pocock
|
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, high, united and/or kingdom:
“Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives—from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango—with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists’ stage.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“All is possible,
Who so list believe;
Trust therefore first, and after preve,
As men wed ladies by license and leave,
All is possible.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across the hundreds of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)