Education
Jeremy Varcoe was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey, and at, Oxford. He served in Her Majesty Forces 1956-1958 and in HMOCS (Swaziland) 1962-1965. He was called to the Bar, Gray"s Inn in 1966.
Jeremy Varcoe was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey, and at, Oxford. He served in Her Majesty Forces 1956-1958 and in HMOCS (Swaziland) 1962-1965. He was called to the Bar, Gray"s Inn in 1966.
Jeremy Varcoe joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as First Secretary in 1970. He was seconded as Deputy Secretary-General to the Pearce Commission on Rhodesian Opinion in 1972. Later that year, he was posted to Ankara.
In 1974, he was posted to Lusaka as Head of Chancery, returning to London in 1978.
He was appointed Counsellor at Kuala Lumpur in 1979. Jeremy Varcoe was appointed Head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office"s Southern African Department in 1982.
Following the Coventry Four affair in March 1984, he was sent as Counsellor to Ankara. Varcoe was seconded to Standard Chartered Bank in 1985.
Subsequently, Jeremy Varcoe was appointed Ambassador to Somalia in 1987.
He coordinated the 17th G8 summit at Lancaster House in 1991, and later served as Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until he retired in 1997. In 2004, Jeremy Varcoe was one of 50 former ambassadors who signed a letter to Tony Blair urging him to distance Britain from United States policy in the Middle East. He became an Immigration Appeals Tribunal judge in 1998 but was forced to retire in 2007 at the age of 70.
Varcoe then sued the Ministry of Justice for discriminating against him on account of his age.
They had two daughters (1964 and 1966).