Peter Beckingham (born 13 March 1949) is a British retired diplomat, who was Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands 2013–2016.

Beckingham was born in Essex in 1949, and was educated at Chigwell School and Selwyn College, Cambridge.

In 1966, he received a scholarship from the Nuffield Foundation to teach in Zambia.

[1] In October 2013, he succeeded Ric Todd as Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

[2] In June 2016 the FCO announced that he was to be replaced in October 2016 and was to retire from the Diplomatic Service.