Embassy of Mexico, London
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{{Infobox Diplomatic Mission
|name = Embassy of Mexico in London
|coordinates = {{coord|51.5129|-0.1436|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
|image = Embajada de México, Londres.jpg
|address = 16 St. George Street, London, W1S 1FD
|ambassador = Josefa González-Blanco {{cite news | url= https://embamex.sre.gob.mx/reinounido/index.php/en/view-more-press/50-2021press/1839-new-ambassador-of-mexico-to-the-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland | title= NEW AMBASSADOR OF MEXICO TO THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND | date=23 April 2021}}
}}
The Embassy of Mexico in London is the diplomatic mission of Mexico in the United Kingdom.{{cite news|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263519/LDL_December_2013.pdf |title=The London Diplomatic List |date=7 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211155353/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263519/LDL_December_2013.pdf |archive-date=2013-12-11 }} Mexico also maintains a building at 8 Halkin Street in Belgravia which serves as the Ambassador’s Official Residence.
In 2011 a pro-Zapatista demonstration was held at the embassy, with the Mexican tricolour being replaced with the Zapatista flag.{{cite news | url= http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/12/489768.html | title= Mexican embassy flies Zapatista flag | date=4 December 2011}}
The embassy building in St George's Street, together with its neighbour, is Grade II listed.{{NHLE|num=1235637|desc=16 and 17 St George Street|access-date=24 August 2017|mode=cs2}}
Ambassador
The Ambassador of Mexico to the Court of St James is the highest ranking diplomatic representative of the United Mexican States to the United Kingdom.
class="wikitable"
|+ Diplomatic representatives of Mexico to the Court of St James{{cite web|title=Embajadores de México en el Reino Unido|url=http://www.sre.gob.mx/acervo/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=182|publisher=Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores|access-date=31 October 2014|location=Mexico City, Mexico|language=es|date=17 February 2014}} |
Name
! Rank ! Appointment ! Credentials ! End of mission |
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José Mariano Michelena
| Confidential agent | 26 March 1824 | 27 June 1824 | 7 July 1825 |
Vicente Rocafuerte
| 6 July 1825 | {{N/a}} | 26 December 1826 |
Tomás Murphy
| 26 December 1826 | {{N/a}} | 23 May 1827 |
Vicente Rocafuerte
| 19 July 1827 | {{N/a}} | 18 September 1829 |
Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza
| 4 June 1829 | {{N/a}} | 25 August 1830 |
Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza
| Envoy | 29 August 1830 | 10 November 1830 | 14 May 1833 |
José Máximo Garro
| Envoy | 12 April 1833 | 28 August 1833 | 6 May 1835 |
Miguel Santa María
| Envoy | 30 January 1835 | 24 June 1835 | 23 April 1837 |
Agustín de Iturbide y Huarte
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 27 August 1835 | {{N/a}} | 26 May 1838 |
Juan Nepomuceno Almonte
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 26 May 1838 | 8 June 1838 | 27 October 1838 |
José Máximo Garro
| Envoy | 17 August 1838 | 29 November 1838 | 27 July 1839 |
Tomás Murphy
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 28 May 1839 | 24 July 1839 | 2 October 1842 |
Tomás Murphy
| Envoy | 2 October 1842 | 1 March 1843 | 28 August 1846 |
José María Mendoza
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 28 September 1846 | 21 December 1846 | 22 March 1847 |
José María Luis Mora
| Envoy | 29 December 1846 | 28 March 1847 | 14 July 1850 |
José María Mendoza
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 14 July 1850 | {{N/a}} | 3 April 1851 |
Francisco Facio
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 26 July 1851 | 27 October 1851 | 9 July 1853 |
Joaquín María del Castillo y Lanzas
| Envoy | 29 May 1853 | 8 August 1853 | 6 December 1855 |
José María González de la Vega
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 31 October 1855 | {{N/a}} | 13 December 1856 |
Juan Nepomuceno Almonte
| Envoy | 28 April 1856 | 15 December 1856 | 9 August 1858 |
Tomás Murphy
| Envoy | 25 May 1858 | 29 October 1858 | 28 January 1861[12] |
Francisco de Arrangoiz
| Envoy | 5 August 1864 | 10 November 1864 | 4 August 1865 |
José María Durán
| Envoy | 9 October 1865 | s/d | 1 January 1867 |
Ángel Núñez de Ortega
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 1 January 1867 | {{N/a}} | 25 April 1867 |
Juan Nepomuceno Almonte
| Envoy | 10 February 1867 | 25 April 1867 | 21 May 1867 |
Ignacio Mariscal
| Envoy | 29 May 1883 | 22 August 1883 | 6 August 1884 |
Ignacio Mariscal
| Envoy | 4 October 1884 | 10 December 1884 | 20 December 1884 |
Pablo Martínez del Campo
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 18 December 1884 | 24 December 1884 | 13 May 1887 |
Francisco Zacarías Mena
| Envoy | 8 November 1886 | 13 May 1887 | 29 June 1888 |
Pablo Martínez del Campo
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 29 June 1888 | {{N/a}} | 3 July 1892 |
Benito Gómez Farías
| Envoy | 31 May 1892 | 26 November 1892 | 18 August 1893 |
Cayetano Romero
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 18 August 1893 | {{N/a}} | 20 November 1894 |
Manuel de Yturbe y del Villar
| Envoy | 6 October 1894 | 20 November 1894 | 18 April 1899 |
Cayetano Romero
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 18 April 1899 | {{N/a}} | 2 March 1900 |
Sebastián Bernardo de Mier
| Envoy | 18 October 1899 | 14 March 1900 | 21 June 1901 |
Cayetano Romero
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 5 June 1901 | {{N/a}} | 10 November 1901 |
Alfonso Lancaster Jones
| Envoy | 23 October 1901 | 11 February 1902 | 25 May 1903 |
Pedro Rincón Gallardo y Terreros
| Envoy | 23 April 1903 | 9 October 1903 | 17 April 1907 |
Miguel Covarrubias
| Envoy | 15 May 1907 | 26 October 1907 | 5 June 1911 |
Miguel de Béistegui y Septién
| Envoy | 15 June 1911 | 8 August 1911 | 31 May 1912 |
Miguel Covarrubias
| Envoy | 12 April 1912 | 11 June 1912 | 7 March 1913 |
Bartolomé Carbajal y Rosas
| Envoy | 27 February 1913 | 21 July 1913 | 17 September 1914 |
Miguel Covarrubias
| Confidential agent | 28 February 1914 | {{N/a}} | 5 September 1914 |
Miguel Covarrubias
| 5 September 1914 | 17 September 1914 | 13 January 1915 |
Isidro Fabela Alfaro
| Confidential agent | 1 May 1915 | {{N/a}} | 4 August 1915 |
Juan Sánchez-Azcona y Díaz Covarrubias
| Confidential agent | 4 August 1915 | {{N/a}} | 21 October 1915 |
{{ill|Félix Fulgencio Palavicini|es|Félix Fulgencio Palavicini}}
| Confidential agent | 14 June 1920 | 22 July 1920 | 23 July 1920 |
Miguel Covarrubias
| Envoy | 1 August 1920 | 23 October 1920 | 17 April 1921 |
Juan Francisco Urquidi
| Archivist | 26 February 1921 | {{N/a}} | 22 September 1922 |
Alberto Mascareñas
| Archivist | 22 September 1922 | {{N/a}} | 29 October 1924 |
Gilberto Valenzuela Galindo
| Envoy | 23 September 1925 | 7 November 1925 | 15 January 1929 |
Leopoldo Ortiz Liebich
| Envoy | 16 January 1929 | 26 March 1929 | 7 August 1932 |
Alberto Mascareñas
| Envoy | 27 May 1932 | 23 July 1932 | 20 January 1934 |
Javier Sánchez Mejorada
| Envoy | 20 January 1934 | 13 March 1934 | 31 December 1934 |
Leónides Andrew Almazán
| Envoy | 1 January 1935 | 19 February 1935 | 3 December 1935 |
Narciso Bassols García
| Envoy | 1 January 1936 | 13 March 1936 | 4 January 1937 |
Primo Villa Michel
| Envoy | 1 February 1937 | 11 March 1937 | 1 November 1938 |
Gustavo Luders de Negri
| Archivist | 13 May 1938 | {{N/a}} | 11 November 1941 |
José Maximiliano Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz
| Envoy | 1 November 1941 | 22 January 1942 | 16 February 1944 |
José Maximiliano Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz
| 16 February 1944 | 20 April 1944 | 20 October 1945 |
Federico Jiménez O'Farril
| 1 November 1945 | 15 February 1946 | 4 October 1951 |
Francisco Asís de Icaza y León
| 21 January 1952 | 11 March 1952 | 15 April 1955 |
Gustavo Luders de Negri
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 18 May 1955 | {{N/a}} | 16 July 1957 |
Pablo Campos Ortiz
| 1 June 1957 | 24 July 1957 | 16 May 1960 |
Gustavo Luders de Negri
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 16 May 1960 | {{N/a}} | 22 December 1960 |
Antonio Armendariz Cárdenas
| 1 September 1960 | 18 January 1961 | 6 February 1965 |
Eduardo Suárez Aranzolo
| 1 March 1965 | 4 May 1965 | 4 September 1970 |
Vicente Sánchez Gavito
| 12 August 1970 | 25 November 1970 | 25 July 1973 |
Hugo B. Margáin Gleason
| 1 July 1973 | 7 August 1973 | 7 December 1976 |
Manuel Tello Macías
| 29 December 1976 | 16 March 1977 | 15 June 1979 |
Héctor Cárdenas Rodríguez
| Chargé d'affaires ad interim | 20 June 1979 | {{N/a}} | 13 January 1980 |
José Juan de Olloqui y Labastida
| 8 November 1979 | 21 February 1980 | 5 November 1982 |
Francisco Cuevas Cancino
| 18 January 1983 | 1 February 1983 | 7 January 1986 |
Jorge Eduardo Navarrete López
| 5 November 1985 | 14 February 1986 | 21 March 1989 |
Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
| 17 January 1989 | 9 March 1989 | 1 March 1993 |
José Juan de Olloqui y Labastida
| 23 July 1993 | 28 October 1993 | 31 December 1994 |
Andrés Rozental Gutman
| 25 December 1994 | 4 May 1995 | 20 April 1997 |
Santiago Oñate Laborde
| 4 April 1997 | 4 June 1997 | 20 February 2001 |
Alma Rosa Moreno Razo
| 30 January 2001 | s/d | February 2004 |
Juan José Bremer
| 8 January 2004 | 18 March 2004 | 30 November 2009 |
Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza
| 10 November 2009 | 23 February 2010 | December 2012 |
Diego Antonio Gómez Pickering
| 4 December 2013 | 2016 |
Julián Ventura Valero
| 13 March 2017{{cite web|title=Ambassador Julián Ventura|url=https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1402610074653184003|access-date=13 Jul 2017}} | 15 December 2018 |
Josefa González Blanco Ortiz Mena
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Gallery
Embassy of Mexico in London 1.jpg|The Embassy
File:Embassy of Mexico in London 2.jpg|Plaque outside the embassy in English and Spanish
File:Embassy of Mexico in London 3.jpg|The Mexican flag and Coat of arms above the entrance
File:Annexe of the Mexican embassy in Halkin Street 03.JPG|Residence of the Mexican Ambassador in London
See also
{{Portal|London|Mexico|United Kingdom}}
References
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External links
- [https://embamex.sre.gob.mx/reinounido/ Official site]
- [https://www.gob.mx/sre/ Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs]
{{Diplomatic missions of Mexico}}
{{Diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom}}
Category:Mexico–United Kingdom relations
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