Terence Willcocks Garvey was educated at Felsted School and University College, Oxford (where he gained a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics), and was a Laming Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford, in 1938.
He served in the USA,[1] Chile,[2] Germany and Egypt as well as at the Foreign Office.
He was Counsellor, HM Embassy, Belgrade, 1958–62; chargé d'affaires at Peking, and concurrently Britain's first ambassador to Mongolia, 1963–65;[3] assistant Under-secretary of State at the Foreign Office 1965–68; ambassador to Yugoslavia 1968–71;[4] High Commissioner to India 1971–73; and ambassador to the Soviet Union 1973–75.
[5] After retiring from the Diplomatic Service Garvey became a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford.
He is buried at Murrisk Abbey, county Mayo, Ireland.