Robin Fearn
Sir Patrick Robin Fearn
KCMG
(5 September 1934 – 26 August 2006) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Cuba and Spain.
Career
Patrick Robin Fearn was educated at
Consul General at Islamabad 1977–79.[2] He was head of the South America department at the FCO 1979–82, culminating in the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina
on 2 April 1982.
- From the moment of the invasion, it fell to Fearn to organise and animate - indeed, almost to invent - the emergency unit which had to manage intra-Whitehall coordination as well as to seek international support for the UK's response. He worked almost without pause for weeks on end, but remained calm, reassuring and approachable, encouraging his team by his own example as they shouldered a huge burden of work. — Obituary, The Guardian
After the war Fearn spent 1983 at the
After retiring from the Diplomatic Service, Fearn was director of the Oxford University Diplomatic Studies Programme and visiting Fellow of University College 1995–99.[5]
References
- ^ The London Gazette, 11 January 1973
- ^ The London Gazette, 15 March 1977
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 June 1983
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1990
- ^ About the Oxford University Foreign Service Programme, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford
External links
- FEARN, Sir (Patrick) Robin, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007
- Sir Robin Fearn (obituary), The Guardian, London, 6 October 2006
- Sir Robin Fearn (obituary), The Telegraph, London, 2 October 2006