Anderson, Sir Robert (1841–1918), spymaster, detective chief, and author, was born on 29 May 1841 in Mountjoy Square, Dublin, the third son of Matthew Anderson (1804–1888), crown solicitor, Dublin, and his wife, Mary née Lee. The second son, Sir Samuel Lee Anderson (...
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Anderson, Sir Robert (1841–1918), spymaster, detective chief, and author
Bernard Porter
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Atkins [formerly Rosenberg], Vera May (1908–2000), intelligence officer
M. R. D. Foot
Atkins [formerly Rosenberg], Vera May (1908–2000), intelligence officer, was born in Galatz, Romania, on 15 June 1908, the only daughter and second of the three children of Max Rosenberg (d. 1932), businessman, and his wife, Hilda, née Atkins (d. 1945)...
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Blake [née Behar], George [also known as Giorgi Ivanovich Bekhter] (1922–2020), intelligence officer and spy
Richard Norton-Taylor
Blake [née Behar], George [also known as Giorgi Ivanovich Bekhter] (1922–2020), intelligence officer and spy, was born on 11 November 1922 in Rotterdam, the only son and second of three children of Albert William Behar (1889–1936), a Turkish-born Sephardic Jew and naturalized Briton, and his wife, ...
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Brooks, Anthony Morris [Tony] (1922–2007), special operations and intelligence officer
Lawrence Goldman
Brooks, Anthony Morris [Tony] (1922–2007), special operations and intelligence officer, was born on 4 April 1922 at The Cottage, Orsett, Essex, the son of Douglas Charles Morris Brooks, construction engineer and businessman, and his wife, Beryl, née Anderson. His father had undertaken secret missions during the First World War, though ...
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Buckmaster, Maurice James (1902–1992), intelligence officer and businessman
M. R. D. Foot
Buckmaster, Maurice James (1902–1992), intelligence officer and businessman, was born on 11 January 1902 at Ravenhill, Brereton, Staffordshire, the son of Henry James Buckmaster (c.1857–1943), brewer, and his wife, Eva Matilda, née Nason (b. c.1868). He was educated at ...
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Clutterbuck, Richard Lewis (1917–1998), army officer and counter-insurgency and anti-terrorism expert
Roger T. Stearn
Clutterbuck, Richard Lewis (1917–1998), army officer and counter-insurgency and anti-terrorism expert, was born on 22 November 1917, 'fourteen days after the Communist Revolution in Russia' (Clutterbuck, 3), at 30 West Park, Eltham, London, the son of Major Lewis St John Rawlinson Clutterbuck...
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Cuckney, John Graham, Baron Cuckney (1925–2008), intelligence officer and industrialist
Martin Adeney
Cuckney, John Graham, Baron Cuckney (1925–2008), intelligence officer and industrialist, was born on 12 July 1925 in India, the only surviving son of Ernest John Cuckney (1896–1965), Royal Air Force officer, and his wife, Lilian, née Williams (1898–1976). His father was air officer commanding ...
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Cumming, Sir Mansfield George Smith (1859–1923), intelligence officer
Christopher Andrew
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Cumming, Sir Mansfield George Smith (1859–1923), intelligence officer, was born Mansfield George Smith on 1 April 1859 in India, the youngest in the family of five sons and eight daughters of Colonel John Thomas Smith (1805–1882) of the Royal Engineers, of Föellalt House, Kent...
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Dansey, Sir Claude Edward Marjoribanks (1876–1947), intelligence officer
M. R. D. Foot
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Dansey, Sir Claude Edward Marjoribanks (1876–1947), intelligence officer, was born at 14 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London, on 10 September 1876, the second child and eldest son in the family of four sons and five daughters of Edward Mashiter Dansey, captain and later lieutenant-colonel in the ...
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Denniston, Alexander Guthrie [Alastair] (1881–1961), cryptanalyst and intelligence officer
F. H. Hinsley
revised by Ralph Erskine
Denniston, Alexander Guthrie [Alastair] (1881–1961), cryptanalyst and intelligence officer, was born on 1 December 1881 at Greenock, the eldest child of James Denniston, a medical practitioner, and his wife, Agnes Guthrie. He was educated at Bowdon College, Cheshire, and at the universities of ...
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Dukes, Sir Paul (1889–1967), intelligence officer and author
Michael Hughes
Dukes, Sir Paul (1889–1967), intelligence officer and author, was born on 10 February 1889 at North Field, Bridgwater, the son of Edwin Joshua Dukes, a Congregational minister, and his wife, Edith Mary Pope. Dukes was educated at Caterham School before travelling to St Petersburg...
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Elwell [née Glass], Ann Catherine (1922–1996), intelligence officer and diplomat
Anne Pimlott Baker
Elwell [née Glass], Ann Catherine (1922–1996), intelligence officer and diplomat, was born on 16 June 1922 at 12 Leinster Gardens, Bayswater, London, the only child of Robert Lionel Glass, a general practitioner and former surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Navy, of 106 Inverness Terrace, Bayswater...
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Fielding, Alexander Wallace [Xan] (1918–1991), intelligence officer and author
M. R. D. Foot
Fielding, Alexander Wallace [Xan] (1918–1991), intelligence officer and author, was born Alexander Percival Feilman Wallace on 26 November 1918 at Ootacamund, in southern India. His father, Alexander James Wallace—variously described by his son as a major in the Sikhs and as a barrister—and his Irish mother, ...
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Gubbins, Sir Colin McVean (1896–1976), army officer and intelligence officer
Peter Wilkinson
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Gubbins, Sir Colin McVean (1896–1976), army officer and intelligence officer, was born in Tokyo on 2 July 1896, the younger son and third child in the family of two sons and three daughters of John Harington Gubbins (1852–1929), who was oriental secretary at the British legation, and his wife, ...
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Hall, Sir (William) Reginald (1870–1943), naval officer and intelligence officer
Eunan O'Halpin
Hall, Sir (William) Reginald (1870–1943), naval officer and intelligence officer, was born at The Close, Salisbury, on 28 June 1870, the second child and elder son of Lieutenant William Henry Hall RN of Ross, Herefordshire, and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of the ...
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Hastings, Sir Stephen Lewis Edmonstone (1921–2005), politician
Richard Davenport-Hines
Hastings, Sir Stephen Lewis Edmonstone (1921–2005), politician, was born on 4 May 1921, at 13 Washington House, Basil Street, Knightsbridge, London, the only son of Major Lewis Aloysius Macdonald Hastings (1880–1966) and his wife, Meriel Eda St John (1888–1971), daughter of Neil Edmonstone...
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Hooper, Sir Leonard James [Joe] (1914–1994), intelligence officer and civil servant
Michael Herman
Hooper, Sir Leonard James [Joe] (1914–1994), intelligence officer and civil servant, was born on 23 July 1914 at 67 East Dulwich Road, Camberwell, London, the only child of James Edmund Hooper, copywriter for a pharmaceutical firm, and his wife, Grace Lena, née Pitts...
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Kell, Sir Vernon George Waldegrave (1873–1942), intelligence officer
Nicholas Hiley
Kell, Sir Vernon George Waldegrave (1873–1942), intelligence officer, was born on 21 November 1873 at the barracks, South Town, Matford, Suffolk, the only son of Major Waldegrave Charles Vernon Kell of the South Staffordshire regiment and his wife, Georgiana Augusta Konarska. Kell's skill as a linguist led at first to thoughts of the diplomatic service, but in 1892 he entered the ...
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Knight, (Charles Henry) Maxwell (1900–1968), intelligence officer and naturalist
Eric Homberger
Knight, (Charles Henry) Maxwell (1900–1968), intelligence officer and naturalist, was born on 9 July 1900 at 199 Selhurst Road, South Norwood, Croydon, one of at least two sons of Hugh Coleraine Knight (d. 1914), a solicitor, and his wife, Ada Phyllis Roberts, ...
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Lawrence, Thomas Edward [known as Lawrence of Arabia] (1888–1935), intelligence officer and author
Lawrence James
Lawrence, Thomas Edward [known as Lawrence of Arabia] (1888–1935), intelligence officer and author, was born on 16 August 1888 at Woodlands, Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire, the second of the five sons of Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman (1846–1919), an Anglo-Irish landowner, and his mistress, Sarah Junner (1861–1959)...
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