{{short description|none}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} The '''high commissioner of the United Kingdom to the Bahamas''' is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
==History== From Bahamian independence in 1973 until 2005 there were resident high commissioners to the Bahamas. In June 2005 the high commission in Nassau was closed and responsibility for the Bahamas was assumed by the British high commission in Kingston, Jamaica,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/wmview.php?ArtID=4939|title=British High Commission To Close On June 6|author=Keva Lightbourne|work=The Nassau Guardian|date=2005-03-18|access-date=2009-07-23|archive-date=4 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604180302/http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/wmview.php?ArtID=4939|url-status=dead}}</ref> the high commissioner to Jamaica was also accredited to the Bahamas. However, the high commission in Nassau is to reopened in 2019 with a resident high commissioner.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-the-bahamas-august-2019 |title=Change of British High Commissioner to The Bahamas - August 2019 |publisher=Foreign & Commonwealth Office |date=31 May 2019}}</ref>
==List of heads of mission==
===High commissioners to the Bahamas=== *1973–1975: Charles Treadwell<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U37985 |title=TREADWELL, Charles James |work=Who's Who 2009 |publisher=A & C Black |year=2008 |access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref> *1973–1978: Peter Mennell<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U167136 |title=MENNELL, Peter |work=Who Was Who |publisher=A & C Black |date=1920–2008 |access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref> *1978–1981: John Duncan<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U14299 |title=DUNCAN, John Spenser Ritchie |work=Who Was Who |publisher=A & C Black |year=2007 |access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref> *1981–1983: Achilles Papadopoulos<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U180981 |title=PAPADOPOULOS, Achilles Symeon |work=Who Was Who |publisher=A & C Black |date=1920–2008 |access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref> *1983–1986: Peter Heap<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U19663 |title=HEAP, Sir Peter (William) |work=Who's Who 2009 |publisher=A & C Black |year=2008 |access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref> *1986–1991: Colin Mays<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U27130 |title=MAYS, Colin Garth |work=Who's Who 2009 |publisher=A & C Black |year=2008 |access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref> *1991–1992: Michael Gore<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U17620 |title=GORE, Michael Edward John |work=Who's Who 2009 |publisher=A & C Black |year=2008 |access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref> *1992–1996: Brian Attewell<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U5979 |title=ATTEWELL, Brian |work=Who's Who 2009 |publisher=A & C Black |year=2008 |access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref> *1996–1999: Peter Young<ref>{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5243/is_199906/ai_n20195849/ |title=UK GOVERNMENT: Change of High Commissioner at Nassau |work=M2 Presswire |date=June 1999 |access-date=2009-07-23}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U41398 |title=YOUNG, Peter Michael Heppell |work=Who's Who 2009 |publisher=A & C Black |year=2008 |access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref> *1999–2003: Peter Heigl<ref name="Hansard"/> *2003–2005: Roderick Gemmell<ref name="Hansard">{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030901/text/30901w28.htm |title=Ambassadors|work=Hansard |access-date=2009-07-23}}</ref> *2005–2009: Jeremy Cresswell (non-resident) *2010–2013: Howard Drake (non-resident) *2013–2017: David Fitton (non-resident)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130722/news/news1.html|title = New British high commissioner tackles job|date = 22 July 2013}}</ref> *2017–2019: Asif Ahmad (non-resident) *2019–2022: Sarah Dickson<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-the-bahamas-august-2019|title=Change of British High Commissioner to The Bahamas - August 2019|website=GOV.UK|language=en|access-date=2019-06-07}}</ref> <!-- The coding in the following line is for the *current high commissioner*. On a change of high commissioner, please make a new normal line (above this comment) for the outgoing high commissioner, then put the new name (wikilinked as appropriate) between the onlyinclude and /onlyinclude tags, and any reference *after* the /onlyinclude tag. This takes the name automatically to "List of heads of missions of the United Kingdom" --> *2022–2025: Tom Hartley<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-the-bahamas-mr-thomas-hartley | title=Change of British High Commissioner to the Bahamas: Thomas Hartley }}</ref> *2025–present: <onlyinclude>Smita Rossetti</onlyinclude><ref>https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-british-high-commissioner-to-the-bahamas-smita-rossetti</ref>
==References== <references />{{Lists of heads of UK diplomatic missions}}
Bahamas * United Kingdom