JAY MOFFAT

1932 - 2021

Jay Pierrepont Moffat, JR.  
January 17, 1932 - October 23, 2020   Jay Pierrepont Moffat, Jr., known as Peter, a retired career diplomat and former Ambassador to Chad, died Friday, October 23, 2020. He was 88. Born in New York to Ambassador Jay Pierrepont Moffat and Lilla Cabot Grew Moffat in 1937, he is predeceased by his older sister, Edith Alice Pierrepont Spenser. He spent some of his childhood in Australia and Canada, before his father's untimely passing in 1943. He attended the Groton School and graduated from Harvard University in 1953. In that year he married Pamela Mary Dawson, daughter of Shakespeare scholar Giles Dawson and Margaret Williams. He served in the Army and the National Security Administration from 1953 to 1956 before joining the Foreign Service as an intelligence research officer. From 1958 to 1970, he was posted in Kobe, Paris, Bern, and Washington. He was the Deputy Chief of Mission in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 1971 to 1974 and in Rabat, Morocco from 1976 to 1980. He served as the temporary chargé d'affaires in The Gambia and Lesotho before becoming the chargé d'affaires in N'Djamena, Chad [en.wikipedia.org] in 1982. He was appointed Ambassador to Chad in May 1983 and served until July 1985, during the Chadian-Libyan Conflict. Afterward he was briefly the senior vice president of the National War College. After his retirement, he split his time between Washington, DC and Hancock, New Hampshire. He traveled extensively and was an avid reader and tennis player. His sense of humor always made his stories a delight. He was a longtime member of the Alliance Fran��aise and the Metropolitan Club of Washington. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three children: Sarah Srebro, of Lakeville, Massachusetts, Matthew Moffat, of Hamilton, Massachusetts, and Nathaniel Moffat of Bowie, Maryland; as well as seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. An Memorial Service will be held in Hancock, NH the summer of 2021 COVID dependent