Roger Hollis - Harold Acton

Sir Roger Henry Hollis, KBE, CB (2 December 1905 - 26 October 1973) was a British journalist and secret-service agent, who was Director General of MI5 from 1956 to 1965.Roger Henry Hollis was born at Wells in Somerset, on 2 December 1905, the third of the four sons of the Revd George Arthur Hollis (1868 1944), vice-principal of Wells Theological College and later bishop-suffragan of Taunton, and his wife, Mary Margaret, the daughter of Charles Marcus Church, canon of Wells, a great-niece of R. W. Church, dean of St Paul's Cathedral. He was a younger brother of Christopher Hollis, later a writer and Conservative politician.

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• Assisted by: Klaas Apostol (Editor)
• Publisher: Betascript Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2012
• EAN: 9786137853283
• ISBN: 9786137853283
• No. of pages: 140
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric