Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, KCMG, OBE (born 23 January 1945) was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 until 6 May 2004.
Dearlove was born in Gorran Haven in Cornwall and attended Monkton Combe School near Bath, the Kent School in Kent, Connecticut, and Queens' College, Cambridge. He joined MI6 in 1966 and was posted to Nairobi in 1968. After being posted to Prague, Paris and Geneva he became head of Washington station...
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Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, KCMG, OBE (born 23 January 1945) was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1999 until 6 May 2004.
Dearlove was born in Gorran Haven in Cornwall and attended Monkton Combe School near Bath, the Kent School in Kent, Connecticut, and Queens' College, Cambridge. He joined MI6 in 1966 and was posted to Nairobi in 1968. After being posted to Prague, Paris and Geneva he became head of Washington station in 1991, director of personnel and administration in 1993 and director of operations in 1994. He became chief in 1999.
Dearlove's tenure as the head of MI6, or "C", saw many momentous events for the service:
Dearlove became Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge on 1 August 2004. He accepted an invitation to become the Chairman of Trustees of the Cambridge Union Society in 2006. As Master of Pembroke College he is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pembroke House, a community centre in Walworth, South London linked to the college and to...
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