List of high commissioners of the United Kingdom to India
Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations exchange high commissioners rather than ambassadors. Though there are a few technical differences, they are in practice the same office. The following persons have served as British high commissioner to India.
List of high commissioners
British India (1946–1947)
- 1946–1947: Sir Terence Shone
Dominion of India (1947–1950)
- 1947–1948: Sir Terence Shone
- 1948–1950: Sir Archibald Nye
Republic of India (1950–present)
- 1950–1952: Sir Archibald Edward Nye
- 1952–1955: Sir Alexander Clutterbuck
- 1955–1960: Malcolm MacDonald
- 1960–1965: Sir Paul Gore-Booth
- 1965–1968: John Freeman
- 1968–1971: Sir Morrice James
- 1971–1973: Sir Terence Garvey
- 1974–1976: Sir Michael Walker
- 1977–1982: Sir John Thomson
- 1982–1987: Sir Robert Wade-Gery
- 1987–1991: Sir David Goodall
- 1991–1996: Sir Nicholas Fenn
- 1996–1998: Sir David Gore-Booth
- 1999–2003: Sir Rob Young
- 2003–2007: Sir Michael Arthur
- 2007–2011: Sir Richard Stagg
- 2011–2015: Sir James Bevan
- 2016-2020: Sir Dominic Asquith
- 2020–2021: Sir Philip Barton
- 2021–2024: Sir Alexander Ellis
- April 2024–:
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