Ted Pocock

{{Short description|Australian public servant and diplomat}}

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| birth_name = Edward Robert Pocock

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|03|14|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|04|05|1934|03|14|df=y}}

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| occupation = Public servant, diplomat

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| alma_mater = University of Adelaide

| spouse = {{marriage|Meg Grosvenor|30 January 1971|5 April 2013}}

| nationality = Australian

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Edward Robert "Ted" Pocock {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (14 March 1934{{spaced endash}}5 April 2013) was an Australian public servant and diplomat.{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/resolute-compassionate-diplomat-who-sympathised-with-dissidents-20130502-2iw4b.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209113901/http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/resolute-compassionate-diplomat-who-sympathised-with-dissidents-20130502-2iw4b.html|archivedate=9 February 2016|title=Resolute, compassionate diplomat who sympathised with dissidents|date=3 May 2013|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=Fairfax Media|first=Tim|last=McDonald|author-link=Tim McDonald (diplomat)}}

Pocock first joined the Department of External Affairs in 1959. He stayed only a short time, leaving for the United Kingdom to start his doctorate, but returned in 1961.{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/diplomat-reached-out-to-dissidents-20130425-2ih18.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105071505/http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/diplomat-reached-out-to-dissidents-20130425-2ih18.html|archivedate=5 November 2013|title=Diplomat reached out to dissidents|date=26 April 2013|first=Tim|last=McDonald|author-link=Tim McDonald (diplomat)|publisher=Fairfax Media|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald}}

Pocock married Margaret Elizabeth Grosvenor on 30 January 1971 at a church in Sutton, New South Wales.{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/187370513|title=Wedding Bells: Will live in Canberra|date=12 February 1971|page=6|newspaper=Victor Harbour Times|location=SA}}

In 1980, Pocock was appointed to his first ambassadorial position as Australian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea.{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110955299|title=Appointments|date=3 May 1980|page=3|newspaper=The Canberra Times}} Between 1984 and 1987, Pocock was Australian Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Mongolia.{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/116384224|title=Ambassadors to Moscow, Seoul picked|date=13 January 1984|page=3|newspaper=The Canberra Times}} In 1987, Pocock was appointed Ambassador to France.{{cite news|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/132155009|title=Hayden names 7 envoys|date=25 August 1987|newspaper=The Canberra Times}}