Background
Patrick Henry Dean was born in Berlin, Germany to Henry Roy Dean, (1879–1961), a professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, and his wife, Irene Wilson (1875–1959), the daughter of Charles Arthur Wilson.
Patrick Henry Dean was born in Berlin, Germany to Henry Roy Dean, (1879–1961), a professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, and his wife, Irene Wilson (1875–1959), the daughter of Charles Arthur Wilson.
Rugby School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Assistant Legal Adviser, Foreign Office 1939-1945, Head German Political Department 1945-1950, Minister in Rome 1950-1951. Civilian Instructor Imperial Defence College 1952. Assistant Under-Secretary Foreign Office 1953-1956, Deputy Under-Secretary 1956-1960.
Permanent
Representative 1960-1964. Ambassador to United States of America 1965-1969. Chairman ESU December 1972-1983, Cambridge Petroleum Royalties 197582.
Governing Body Rugby School 1972-1984.
Director Taylor Woodrow Limited., 1969-1986, Institute Adviser since 1986. Institute Adviser to American Express since 1969.
Honorary Doctor of Laws (Columbia, Lincoln, Wesleyan Chattanooga, Hofstra Universities, William and Mary College). Honorary Bencher Lincoln’s Inn.
Honorary Fellow Clare College, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Married Patricia Wallace Jackson in 1947.