Clive Loehnis

Sir Clive Loehnis KCMG (24 August 1902 – 23 May 1992)^[1] was a director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1960 to 1964.

Career[]

Loehnis was born in 1902 in Chelsea, London. His father, Herman Loehnis, was born in New York, but had become a naturalised British citizen and became a barrister.^[1]

Clive Loehnis attended Lockers Park School and then became a Royal Navy officer cadet, training at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and graduating from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.^[1] He became qualified in signals in 1928 and left the Navy in 1935.^[1] In 1938 he returned to the Signals Division of the Admiralty, where he earned the silver oak leaves of a commander before retiring in 1942 and going into the Naval Intelligence Division.^[1] When he was demobilised after the war, he joined GCHQ, at that time a semi-covert division of the Foreign Office.^[2]

Loehnis was appointed deputy to Sir Eric Jones in 1954.^[1] When Jones retired in 1960, Loehis was promoted to the directorship, which he held until 1964.^[1] He was knighted in 1962.^[1]

Loehnis married Rosemary Ryder in 1929, and the marriage produced a son and a daughter.^[1] After leaving GCHQ Loehnis retired to Belgravia, where he died in May 1992.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j D. R. Nicoll, "Loehnis, Sir Clive (1902–1992), naval officer and civil servant", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
^ James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace

Government offices
Preceded by Sir Eric Jones	Director of GCHQ 1960–1964	Succeeded by Sir Leonard Hooper

[odnb-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j D. R. Nicoll, "Loehnis, Sir Clive (1902–1992), naval officer and civil servant", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

[2] James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace

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