| 1872 |
Cléomenes Pillot, Vice-Consul |
| 1879 |
Ernest Simon Montoux, Vice-Consul |
| 1887 |
Edouard Rastoul, Vice-Consul |
| 1888 |
Capt Pierre Gaston Faoche, Vice-Consul |
| 1894 |
Capt Ellan Henry Maclean, Vice-Consul |
| 1896 |
Capt Ellan Henry Maclean, Consul |
| 1897 |
Capt Leonard Robert Sunkersett, Consul |
| 1902 |
Capt Charles Francis Cromie, Consul and for Republic of Liberia |
| 1905 |
Capt Charles Francis Cromie, Consul-General for French West Africa |
| 1908 |
Maj John Grey Baldwin, Consul-General for French West Africa |
| 1909 |
Maj Charles Braithwaite Wallis, Consul-General, also for the Sudan |
| 1916 |
Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham, Actg Consul General |
| 1920 |
Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham, Consul-General |
| 1928 |
Eric Cunliffe Buxton, Consul General |
| 1931 |
Victor Vincent Cusden, Consul-General |
July 1940- Jan 1943
|
Post closed (Vichy administration in Dakar) |
| 1943 |
Ernest William Meiklered, Consul-General |
| 1945 |
Hector Bruce Henderson, Consul-General |
| 1951 |
Donald Camerson, Consul-General |
| 1954 |
Frank Chatterton Butler, Consul-General |
| 1956 |
Alan Trevor Oldham, Consul-General, also the Portuguese Guinea |
| 1959 |
John Hugh Adam Watson, Consul-General |
| 1960 |
John Hugh Adam Watson, Ambassador to Federation of Mali and Mauritania (later Ambassador to Senegal, Mauritania and Togo) |
| 1962 |
John Howard Peck, Ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania |
| 1966 |
John Gabriel Tahourdin, Ambassador, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali and Guinea |
| 1972 |
Ivor Forsyth Porter, Ambassador, ditto |
| 1973 |
Denzil Inglis Dunnet, Ambassador, ditto |
| 1976 |
John Ernest Powell-Jones, Ambassador, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania,Guinea, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau |
| 1979 |
Clifford William Squire, Ambassador, ditto |
| 1982 |
Peter Laurence O'Keefe, Ambassador, ditto |
| 1985 |
John Esmond Campbell Macrae, Ambassador, ditto |
| 1990 |
Roger Campbell Beetham, Ambassador (Mauritania to British Embassy Rabat) |
| 1993 |
Alan Edwin Furness, Ambassador, Senegal, Mali, Guinea , Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde |
| 1997 |
David Raymond Snoxell, Ambassador, ditto
|
| 2000 |
Edward Alan Burner, Ambassador, Senegal, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde |
| 2004 |
Peter Newall, Ambassador, Senegal, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde |
