Peter Torry

{{Short description|British diplomat}}

{{BLP sources|date=July 2023}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Peter Torry

| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCVO|KCMG}}

| office = British Ambassador to Germany

| term_start = 2003

| term_end = 2007

| predecessor = Sir Paul Lever

| successor = Sir Michael Arthur

| monarch = Elizabeth II

| president = Johannes Rau
Horst Köhler

| primeminister = Tony Blair

| chancellor = Gerhard Schröder
Angela Merkel

| office1 = British Ambassador to Spain

| term_start1 = 1998

| term_end1 = 2003

| predecessor1 = David Brighty

| successor1 = Sir Stephen Wright

| primeminister1 = Tony Blair

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|8|2|df=y}}

| education = Dover College

| alma_mater = New College, Oxford

| children = 3

}}

Sir Peter James Torry {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCVO|KCMG}} (born 2 August 1948) is a former British diplomat who was the UK Ambassador to Germany from 2003 until 30 September 2007.{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6825245.ece|title=We need Germany, and we need Merkel |author= Peter Torry |work=The Times|accessdate=28 October 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web|url=http://ukingermany.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=News&id=4616151|title=Sir Michael Arthur will be new British Ambassador to Germany|work=Foreign and Commonwealth Office|accessdate=28 October 2010}}{{Cite web |title=PETER TORRY CONSULTANCY LIMITED people |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06456106/officers |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}

He is now a senior adviser to Cairn Capital and to STAR Capital Partners. He is on the Supervisory Board of Blohm and Voss AG. He is a member of the advisory board of Betfair plc and of the Kiel Global Economic Symposium{{cite web|url=http://petertorry.co.uk/aboutus.aspx|title=About|accessdate=28 October 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824082750/http://petertorry.co.uk/aboutus.aspx|archivedate=24 August 2011}} and a policy fellow of the Institute on the Future of Employment in Bonn. He was a member of the advisory panel of Lloyds Pharmacy until April 2010 and a senior adviser to DAM Capital until December 2009, to Centrica plc until 2012 and to Celesio AG.

He was educated at Dover College and at New College, Oxford, to which he won an Open Scholarship. At Oxford he won a blue for Rugby in 1968 and 1969, when the University beat the touring Springboks. He was subsequently selected for the President's of the Rugby Union XV against Wales

He was previously Ambassador to Spain{{cite web|url=http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/127/germany-in-a-new-century.htm|title=Germany in a new century|accessdate=28 October 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111071946/http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/127/germany-in-a-new-century.htm|archivedate=11 November 2010}} from 1998 to 2003 and worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Washington DC, Bonn, Jakarta and Cuba.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}