Richard Dearlove
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| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom |
| Service | Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) |
| Active | 1966–2004 |
| Rank | Chief of SIS/MI6 |
| Award(s) |
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| Birth name | Richard Billing Dearlove |
| Born |
23 January 1945 Gorran Haven, Cornwall |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Intelligence officer |
| Alma mater | Queens' College, Cambridge |
Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, KCMG, OBE (born 23 January 1945) was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), a role fictionally known as "M" and actually, though informally, as "C", from 1999 until 6 May 2004. Sir Richard was Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2015.
Dearlove was born at Gorran Haven in Cornwall, son of Jack Dearlove, 1948 Olympic silver medallist, 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. In 1984, he was appointed an OBE. 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. Dearlove became Chief in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed a KCMG.
Sir Richard's tenure as the head of MI6 saw many events for the Service:
Dearlove was elected 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, Dearlove was ex officio chairman of the board of Trustees of Pembroke House, a community centre in Walworth, London, via the college's patronage of the advowson of St Christopher's, Walworth (CofE).
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