# Embassy of Barbados, Washington, D.C.

The Embassy of Barbados in Washington, D.C. is the primary diplomatic mission of Barbados to the United States of America, and the Organisation of American States (OAS). It is maintained by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Barbados. The present Ambassador is Victor Fernandes, appointed on January 6, 2024, who replaced Noel Anderson Lynch.
It is located to the East of the official Embassy Row area at 2144 Wyoming Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C.'s Kalorama neighborhood.

## Overview

The embassy also operates two Consulates-General in: Miami and New York City; a Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City; and it is also further supported by a collection of Honorary Consulates in: Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Louisville, New Orleans, Portland, San Francisco, and Toledo.

## Heads of mission

| Representative | Title | Appointed (presentation of credentials) | Termination of mission | Appointed by |
| Hilton Augustus Vaughan | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | December 1, 1967 | – | Errol Barrow (G.G. John Montague Stow) |
| Valerie Theodore McComie | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | September 1, 1968 | – | Errol Barrow (G.G. Arleigh Winston Scott) |
| Fozlo Brewster | Counselor, Charge d'Affaires ad interim | May 22, 1974 | – | Errol Barrow (G.G. Arleigh Winston Scott) |
| Cecil Beaumont Williams | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | June 25, 1974 (August 19, 1974) | – | Errol Barrow (G.G. Arleigh Winston Scott) |
| Fozlo Brewster | Counselor, Charge d'Affaires ad interim | December 16, 1975 | – | Errol Barrow (G.G. Arleigh Winston Scott) |
| Maurice A. King | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 28, 1976 (February 9, 1976) | – | Errol Barrow (G.G. Arleigh Winston Scott) |
| Ralphston Orlando Marville | Counselor, Charge d'Affaires ad interim | September 24, 1976 | – | John "Tom" Adams (G. G. William Douglas) |
| Oliver Hamlet Jackman | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | May 13, 1977 (May 16, 1977) | – | John "Tom" Adams (G. G. Deighton Lisle Ward) |
| Ralphston Orlando Marville | Charge d'Affaires ad interim | December 26, 1980 | – | John "Tom" Adams (G. G. Deighton Lisle Ward) |
| Charles A. T. Skeete | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 4, 1981 (February 24, 1981) | – | John "Tom" Adams (G. G. Deighton Lisle Ward) |
| Clifton Maynard | Minister-Counselor, Charge d'Affaires ad interim | July 28, 1983) | – | John "Tom" Adams (G. G. Deighton Lisle Ward) |
| Peter Douglas Laurie | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 15, 1983 (November 21, 1983) | – | John "Tom" Adams (G. G. Deighton Lisle Ward) |
| Sir William Randolph Douglas | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | April 7, 1987 (May 11, 1987) | – | Errol Barrow (G. G. Hugh Springer) |
| Dr. Rudi Valentine Webster | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 5, 1991 (November 25, 1991) | – | Erskine Sandiford (G. G. Ruth Nita Barrow) |
| Dr. Sir Courtney N. Blackman, KA | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | February 8, 1995 (March 20, 1995) | – | Owen Seymour Arthur (G. G. Ruth Nita Barrow) |
| Michael Ian King | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 10, 2000 (December 7, 2000) | – | Owen Seymour Arthur (G. G. Sir Clifford Husbands) |
| John Ernest Beale | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | January 29, 2009 (May 20, 2000) | June 30, 2016 | David Thompson (G. G. Sir Clifford Husbands) |
| Selwin Charles Hart | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | November 1, 2016 (January 18, 2017) | August 15, 2018 | Freundel Stuart (G.G. Sir Eliot Belgrave) |
| Noel Anderson Lynch | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | October 1, 2018 (January 11, 2019) | Current | Mia Amor Mottley (G.G. Dame Sandra Mason) |

## History of visits

* List of diplomatic visits to the United States: North America and the Caribbean#Barbados

## Chancery building history

Former entities located at 2144 Wyoming:
* James Horatio Watmough (~1912– ~1917), Naval Officer
* Katharine Price Collier (~1918)
* Mabel Grouitch (June 1919)
* Frank L. Smith, U.S. House of Representatives (~1920)
* Legation of Finland 1940–1950
* Austria (~1953– ~1956)
* Embassy of Morocco ( ~1958–1962)
* Embassy of Syrian Arab Republic (~1962–1965)