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British diplomat

Sir Terence Garvey KCMG (7 December 1915 – 7 December 1986) was a British diplomat who was High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to the USSR.

Career

Terence Willcocks Garvey was educated at Felsted School and University College, Oxford (where he gained a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics), and was a Laming Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford, in 1938. In the same year he joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. He served in the USA, Chile, Germany and Egypt as well as at the Foreign Office. He was Counsellor, HM Embassy, Belgrade, 1958–62; chargé d'affaires at Peking, and concurrently Britain's first ambassador to Mongolia, 1963–65; assistant Under-secretary of State at the Foreign Office 1965–68; ambassador to Yugoslavia 1968–71; High Commissioner to India 1971–73; and ambassador to the Soviet Union 1973–75.

After retiring from the Diplomatic Service Garvey became a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford. He is buried at Murrisk Abbey, county Mayo, Ireland.

Honours

Terence Garvey was appointed CMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1955 and knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1969.

Publications

Offices held

Diplomatic posts
Preceded bySir Michael Stewart Chargé d'Affaires at Peking
1963–1965 		Succeeded bySir Donald Hopson
New office Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
at Ulan Bator
1963–1964 		Succeeded byReginald Hibbert
Preceded bySir Duncan Wilson Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
at Belgrade
1968–1971 		Succeeded bySir Dugald Stewart
Preceded bySir Morrice James High Commissioner to India
1971–1973 		Succeeded bySir Michael Walker
Preceded bySir John Killick Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
at Moscow
1973–1976 		Succeeded bySir Howard Smith

References

  1. "No. 35068". The London Gazette. 7 February 1941. p. 751.
  2. "No. 35536". The London Gazette. 24 April 1942. p. 1810.
  3. "No. 42985". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 May 1963. p. 3834.
  4. "No. 44723". The London Gazette. 26 November 1968. p. 12676.
  5. "No. 46216". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 February 1974. p. 2410.
  6. "No. 40497". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 June 1955. p. 3261.
  7. "No. 44740". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1969. p. 4.
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