Sir Patrick Fairweather KCMG (born 17 June 1936) is a British retired diplomat.
[1] Maria died in 2010, having completed biographies of Princess Volkonsky (1999) and Madame de Staël (2005).
In late 1976 after the Communist takeover of Laos and the subsequent downgrading of the embassy, he was appointed 1st secretary in the trade section of the UK Representation to the European Economic Community (EEC) in Brussels.
In January 1983 Fairweather returned to London as Head of European Community Department (Internal) of the FCO.
His colleague Robin Renwick later wrote that during his two-year term in Angola he "served as the indispensable channel of communications for the Americans".