Patrick Howard Caines Eyers CMG, LVO (4 September 1933 – 22 December 2023) was a British diplomat who, among other things, was the last ambassador to the German Democratic Republic in 1990.
[2] Between 1977 and 1981, he worked in Bonn as Counselor at the British embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany.
First, from 1985 to 1987, he succeeded Nicholas Bayne in Zaire (also accredited in the Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi) until he was replaced by Robert Cormack.
After that, Eyers became the last British ambassador to the German Democratic Republic in 1990, succeeding Nigel Broomfield.
His last dispatch from East Berlin, "farewell to an unloved country", dated 2 October 1990, is kept in the British National Archives.