Clive Loehnis

After school Loehnis 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.^[3]

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] He served as deputy chairman of the Civil Service Selection Board in 1967.^[4]

In 1929, Loehnis married Rosemary Beryl (1909-2006), daughter of Major Hon. Robert Nathaniel Dudley Ryder (1882-1917), of the 8th Hussars; her paternal grandfather was the banker Henry Ryder, 4th Earl of Harrowby. They had two sons- one of whom died very young- and a daughter.^[5][1] After leaving GCHQ Loehnis retired to Belgravia, where he died in May 1992.^[1]