Terence Daniel O'Leary explained

Honorific Prefix:His Excellency
Terence Daniel O'Leary
Office:Governor of Pitcairn
Primeminister:Margaret Thatcher
Term Start:1984
Term End:1988
Predecessor:Richard Stratton
Successor:Robin Byatt
Office2:British High Commissioner to New Zealand and Samoa
Monarch2:Elizabeth II
Primeminister2:Margaret Thatcher
Term Start2:1984
Term End2:1988
Predecessor2:Richard Stratton
Successor2:Robin Byatt
Office3:British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone
Monarch3:Elizabeth II
Primeminister3:Margaret Thatcher
Term Start3:1981
Term End3:1984
Predecessor3:Michael Hugh Moran
Successor3:Richard Clift
Birth Date:18 August 1928
Nationality:British
Occupation:Diplomat

Terence Daniel O'Leary CMG (18 August 1928 – 11 July 2006)[1] was a British diplomat. He served as High Commissioner to Sierra Leone from 1981 to 1984 and High Commissioner to New Zealand from 1984 to 1988. While High Commissioner to New Zealand, he also served as Governor of Pitcairn.

O'Leary was educated at Dulwich College and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied history.[1]

He worked in the Commonwealth Relations Office from 1953 to 1956.[2] He was second secretary at the High Commission to New Zealand in Wellington from May 1956 to March 1958, first secretary at the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1958, and first secretary in the High Commission to India in Delhi from 1960 to 1962. He worked at the High Commission to Tanganyika in Dar es Salaam from 1962 to 1963 and in the High Commission to Australia in Canberra from 1965 to 1968, when he returned to the Commonwealth Relations Office as first secretary.

He married Janet Douglas Berney in 1960.[2]

Notes and References

  1. News: Terence O'Leary: Diplomat with wide experience of the Commonwealth who rose to serve as British High Commissioner in New Zealand. The Times. London. 22 August 2006. 2 January 2023.
  2. Book: U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The Diplomatic Service List, 1969. London. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1969.