Paul Dukes

Paul Dukes
The Man with a Hundred Faces
Allegiance	United Kingdom White Movement
Service	SIS/MI6.
Operation(s)	Operation Kronstadt
Award(s)	KBE
Codename(s)	ST-25
Birth name	Paul Henry Dukes
Born	10 February 1889 Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK
Died	27 August 1967 (aged 78) Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality	England
Parents	Rev. Edwin J. Dukes, Edith M. Dukes (née Pope)
Spouse	Margaret Rutherford Diana Fitzgerald
Alma mater	Caterham School

Sir Paul Henry Dukes KBE (10 February 1889 – 27 August 1967) was a British author and MI6 officer.

Paul Henry Dukes was born the third of five children on 10 February 1889 in Bridgwater, Somerset, England. He was the son of the Congregationalist clergyman, Rev. Edwin Joshua Dukes (1847-1930), of Kingsland, London, and his wife, the former Edith Mary Pope (1863-1898), of Sandford, Devon. Edith was an academically gifted woman, the daughter of a schoolteacher, who obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree by correspondence course at the age of 20. In 1884, she married Edwin, who had returned from missionary work in China. She died from a disease of the thyroid gland, and in 1907, Edwin remarried to a forty-year-old widow named Harriet Rouse.

Paul's siblings included the playwright Ashley Dukes (1885-1959) and the renowned physician Cuthbert Dukes (1890-1977). He had an elder sister, Irene Catherine Dukes (1887-1950), who led a life plagued by illness, and yet another, younger brother, Marcus Braden Dukes (1893-1936), who died in Kuala Lumpur while working as a government official. Dukes was the great-uncle of poet Aidan Andrew Dun.

Paul was educated at Caterham School before going on to pursue a career in music at Petrograd Conservatoire, Russia.

As a young man he took a position as a language teacher in Riga, Latvia. He later moved to St. Petersburg, having been recruited personally by Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first "C" of MI6 (SIS), to act as a secret agent in Imperial Russia, relying on his fluency in the Russian language. At the time, he was employed at the Petrograd Conservatoire as a concert pianist and deputy conductor to Albert Coates. In his new capacity as sole British agent in Russia, he set up elaborate plans to help prominent White Russians escape from Soviet prisons and smuggled hundreds of them into Finland.

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