Patrick Robin Fearn was educated at Ratcliffe College and University College, Oxford. After National Service 1952–54 he worked for Dunlop Rubber in Venezuela and the Caribbean 1957–61, then joined the Diplomatic Service. 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 1972–75The London Gazette, 11 January 1973 and as Head of Chancery and Consul General at Islamabad 1977–79.The London Gazette, 15 March 1977 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.
