Sir Patrick Robin Fearn KCMG (5 September 1934 – 26 August 2006) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Cuba and Spain.
Between posts at the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO) he served at the embassies in Caracas, Havana, Budapest, as Head of Chancery and Consul at Vientiane 1972–75[1] and as Head of Chancery and Consul General at Islamabad 1977–79.
[2] He was head of the South America department at the FCO 1979–82, culminating in the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina on 2 April 1982.
After the war Fearn spent 1983 at the Royal College of Defence Studies, writing a thesis on the Antarctic Treaty.
He was appointed CMG after the Falklands war[3] and knighted KCMG during his posting to Spain.