Patrick Dean (diplomat)

{{Infobox writer

| name = Sir Patrick Dean

| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCMG}}

| image = Patrick Dean and Lyndon B. Johnson.png

| alt = Patrick Dean meeting with Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House, 1965

| birth_date = {{birth date|1909|3|16|df=yes}}

| birth_name = Patrick Henry Dean

| birth_place = Berlin, Germany

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|11|5|1909|3|16|df=yes}}

| death_place = Kingston, Surrey

| occupation = Barrister, Ambassador

| spouse = Patricia Wallace Jackson

| nationality = British Subject,

| education = Rugby School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Lincoln's Inn}}

Sir Patrick Henry Dean {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCMG}} (16 March 1909 – 5 November 1994){{cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U172035|title=DEAN, Sir Patrick (Henry)|work=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black|accessdate=2008-09-21}} was Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations from 1960 to 1964 and British Ambassador to the United States from 1965 to 1969. He was also a chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.{{cite book | title= Whitehall and the Suez Crisis |editor1= Saul Kelly|editor2= Anthony Gorst|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_jcdkeu2nLwC&dq=patrick+dean+chairman+of+the+joint&pg=PA117|isbn= 9780714650180|year= 2000|publisher= Psychology Press}}

Early life and background

Patrick Henry Dean was born in Berlin, Germany, to Henry Roy Dean, (1879–1961), a professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, and his wife, Irene Wilson (1875–1959), the daughter of Charles Arthur Wilson. Henry Roy Dean was a member of the MacCormac family and was the maternal grandson of Dr Henry MacCormac and the nephew of Sir William MacCormac.

After education at Cambridge, he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn, and he attempted to secure a career at the Bar in London, but was unsuccessful, and as a result he joined the Civil Service. He became a legal adviser to the Foreign office. In that capacity, Dean served as a legal adviser at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, dealing with the repatriation of prisoners, and at the Potsdam Conference, in July and August 1945.{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/16/obituaries/sir-patrick-dean-of-britain-85-envoy-to-un-and-washington.html | title=Sir Patrick Dean of Britain, 85, Envoy to U.N. And Washington| newspaper=The New York Times| date=1994-11-16| last1=Pace| first1=Eric}} He also served as an adviser during the postwar Nuremberg trials of German war criminals and to the British Control Commission in occupied Germany.

As British ambassador to Washington, Dean was occupied with difficulties over Vietnam and British military commitments East of Suez.{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/13619460600785358|title = 'Dealing with disillusioned men': The Washington Ambassadorship of Sir Patrick Dean, 1965–69| journal=Contemporary British History| volume=21| issue=2| pages=247–270|year = 2007|last1 = Colman|first1 = Jonathan|s2cid = 143361772}} He helped to promote greater mutual understanding between the two governments, but faced a president who had a negative attitude to foreign diplomats.

References

{{succession box | before = Lord Harlech | title = British Ambassador to the United States | years = 1965–1969 | after = John Freeman}}

Category:1909 births

Category:1994 deaths

Category:People educated at Rugby School

Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Category:Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge

Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the United States

Category:Chairs of the Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom)

Category:Permanent representatives of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

Category:Members of HM Government Legal Service

Category:Members of HM Diplomatic Service

Category:MacCormac family (County Armagh)

Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

Category:20th-century British diplomats