List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to China
Ambassadors to the People's Republic of China

List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to China

Section Title: Ambassadors to the People's Republic of China
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Name	Tenure begin	Tenure end	British monarch	Paramount leader

Sir John Addis	26 January 1972	17 June 1974	Elizabeth II	Mao Zedong

Sir Edward Youde	29 August 1974	1978

Sir Percy Cradock	15 June 1978	1984	Hua Guofeng

Sir Richard Evans	23 January 1984	1988	Deng Xiaoping

Sir Alan Donald	26 May 1988	1991

Sir Robin McLaren	20 June 1991	1994

Sir Leonard Appleyard	24 September 1994	1997	Jiang Zemin

Sir Anthony Galsworthy	29 December 1997	2002

Sir Christopher Hum	4 April 2002	2006

Sir William Ehrman	15 March 2006	2010	Hu Jintao

Sir Sebastian Wood	3 March 2010	2015

Dame Barbara Woodward	14 April 2015	Xi Jinping

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Sir Richard Evans was the ambassador to the People's Republic of China from January 1984 to May 1988.

final_sentence: Sir Richard Evans was the ambassador to the People's Republic of China from January 1984 to May 1988.