List of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to New Zealand

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 New Zealand since 1957.

*Sir Howard George Charles Mallaby KCMG OBE 1957-1959
*The Hon. Sir Francis Cumming-Bruce 1959-1963
*Sir Arthur Norman Galsworthy (1969-1973)
*Sir David Aubrey Scott (1973-1975)
*Sir Harold Smedley (1976-1980)
*Sir Richard Stratton (1980-1984)
*Terence Daniel O'Leary (1984-1987)
*Robin Byatt (1987-1990)
*David Moss (1990-1994)
*Robert John Alston (1994-1998)
*Martin Williams 1998-2001)
*Richard Fell (2001-2006)
*George Fergusson (2006-present)

Note that since 1970, the British High Commissioner to New Zealand doubles as the Governor of the Pitcairn Islands.