SIS Park, Daphne Margaret Sybil Desiree

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Park ​

• FORENAME

Daphne Margaret Sybil Desiree ​

• UNIT

SIS ​

• RANK

Civilian ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George,Officer of the Order of the British Empire ​

• PLACE

1961 (OBE) 1971 (CMG) ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 1.9.1921​

daughter of John Alexander and Doreen Gwynneth Park​

brought up in Tanganyika​

educated Rosa Bassett School,Streatham​

graduated Somerville College,Oxford (B.A.) 1942​

First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1943-48​

codes instructor,Jedburgh Teams (SOE) 1944​

Allied Commission for Austria 1946-48 (Field Intelligence Agency)​

Foreign Office 1948​

graduated Newnham College,Cambridge (Certificate of Competent Knowledge of Russian) 1952​

diplomat and senior SIS controller for 1948-79​

staff officer​

Paris 1952-54​

Moscow 1954-56​

Leopoldville 1959-61​

Lusaka 1964-67​

Hanoi 1969-70​

Ulan Bator,Mongolia 1972​

London 1973-76​

Controller of the Western Hemisphere 1976-79​

retired from SIS 1979​

Honourable Research Fellow,University of Kent 1971-72​

Charge d'Affaires,British Embassy,Ulan Bator 1972​

Foreign Office 1973-79​

Principal,Somerville College,Oxford 1980-89​

Governor of British Broadcasting Corporation 1982-87​

member,British Library Board 1983-89​

Chairman,Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Aid 1984-90​

Chairman,Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of england 1989-94​

created Baroness Park of Monmouth,etc 27.2.1990​

unmarried (no children)​

died 24.3.2010​

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