{{short description|British retired diplomat|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2014}} {{Use British English|date=April 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = His Excellency |name = Peter Beckingham |image = Peter Beckingham.jpg |office = Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands |term_start = 9 October 2013 |term_end = 16 October 2016 |premier = Rufus Ewing |predecessor = Ric Todd |successor = John Freeman |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|3|13|df=y}} |birth_place = Essex, England |death_date = |death_place = |spouse = Jill Mary Beckingham |alma_mater = Selwyn College, Cambridge }} '''Peter Beckingham''' (born 13 March 1949) is a British retired diplomat, who was Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands 2013–2016.
==Career== Beckingham was born in Essex in 1949, and was educated at Chigwell School and Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1966, he received a scholarship from the Nuffield Foundation to teach in Zambia.<ref name=whoswho>''World Who's Who'', Europa Publications, 2013.</ref> In 1970, he joined Argo Records, a division of Decca Records. In 1974, he worked for the international trade mission, the British Overseas Trade Board, then British Information Services in New York from 1979. In 1984, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in the news department for the 10th G7 summit in London, and then went on to work for the Energy, Science and Space Department, as head of the East African Department, and as head of sections in Sweden and Australia.<ref name=fco>[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-governor-of-turks-and-caicos-islands Change of Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands], Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 29 May 2013.</ref>
From 2005 to 2009, Beckingham was British Ambassador to the Philippines. In 2010, he became Deputy High Commissioner to India.<ref name=whoswho />
In October 2013, he succeeded Ric Todd as Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands.<ref name=fco /> In June 2016 the FCO announced that he was to be replaced in October 2016 and was to retire from the Diplomatic Service.<ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-governor-of-turks-and-caicos-islands--2 Change of Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands], Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 15 June 2016.</ref>
==Publications== *Beckingham, Peter, ''South Downs Showcase - 200 Years of Creativity around Lodsworth, Petworth and Midhurst'', Lodsworth Heritage Society, 2021 {{ISBN|978-1-3999-0626-5}}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-dip}} {{s-bef|before=Paul Dimond}} {{s-ttl|title=Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Philippines|years=2005–2009}} {{s-aft|after=Stephen Lillie}} {{s-gov}} {{s-bef|before=Ric Todd}} {{s-ttl|title=Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands|years=2013–2016}} {{s-aft|after=John Freeman}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beckingham, Peter}} Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Philippines Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Palau Category:Governors of the Turks and Caicos Islands Category:Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Category:People educated at Chigwell School