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,[1] Chile,[2] 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;[3] assistant Under-secretary of State at the Foreign Office 1965–68; ambassador to Yugoslavia 1968–71;[4] High Commissioner to India 1971–73; and ambassador to the Soviet Union 1973–75.[5]

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[6] and knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1969.[7]

Publications

  • Bones of Contention: An Enquiry Into East-West Relations, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1978, ISBN 0-7100-0010-3

Offices held

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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