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Denniston, Robin Alastair, son of Cdr. Alexander Guthrie Denniston CMG CBE RNVR, intelligence officer, head of Govt. Code and Cipher School, Bletchley Park, and Dorothy Mary, d. of Arthur Gilliat (qv, Vol. I); b. 25 Dec. 1926; adm. Sept. 1940 (KS); Capt. of the Sch. 1945; left July 1945; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1945, BA 1949, MA 1952; sen. editor Wm Collins Ltd. 1950-9; promotion man. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. 1960-4, editorial dir. 1966, man. dir. 1968-72; dep. chmn. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1973-5; dir. Thomson Publications Ltd. 1975-7; Academic Publisher OUP 1978-88; Student of Christ Church 1978-88; ord. deacon 1978, priest 1979; hon. Curate Clifton-on-Teme, Worcs 1978, New with South Hinksey, Oxon 1985; priest-in-charge, Great and Little Tew, Oxon 1987-90, 1995-2002 (with an interval as Episcopalian Minister, Burntisland, Fife, 1990-3); author of The Young Musicians 1956; Partly Living 1967, and other books; m. 1st, 15 July 1950 Anne Alice Kyffin, music teacher, d. of Arthur Geoffrey Evans MD FRCP, consult. physician, of Harpley House, Worcs; 2nd, 1987 Rosa Susan Penelope Beddington DPhil FRS, embryologist, Nat. Inst. for Medical Research; d. 6 Apr. 2012.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1937 to Election 2015, Volume 5, London, 2017