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Stewart, Brian, 1922-2015(Personal Name)

Preferred form: Stewart, Brian, 1922-2015
Used for/see from:
  • Stewart, B. T. W. (Brian Thomas Webster), 1922-2015
  • Earlier heading: Stewart, Brian, 1922-

Scrapbook of a roving Highlander, 2002: t.p. (Brian Stewart) p.377 (born 1922)

Smashing terrorism in the Malayan Emergency, 2004: t.p. (Brian Stewart, C.M.G., M.C.S.) pref. (was Malayan Civil Service officer & dir. of Rubber Growers Assoc.) p. 337 (B.T.W. Stewart)

Stewart, Rory. The Marches, 2016: plate following page 354 (Brian Stewart) page 12 (lived in Crieff in later life) page 16 (at the end of World War II, became a Malayan civil servant) page 19 (when Malaya became independent in 1957, he joined the British Secret Service; spent the next 20 years mostly working "under diplomatic cover" out of embassies in Asia, in Burma, China, Malaysia, the Philipines, and North Vietnam; secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee, director of Technical and Support Services; after he retired from government service, he commanded a police force of 2,000 in Malaysia, then spent 15 years in business in China) pages 321-330 (died in 2015, at home)

The Times, September 9, 2015, viewed online 31 May 2017: Obituary: Brian Stewart (Brian Stewart; Brian Thomas Webster Stewart; CMG, MI6 director and China specialist; intelligence officer, recruited by Secret Intelligence Service in 1957; Britain's representative in Hanoi during the Vietnam War; born in Edinburgh April 27, 1922; educated at Worcester College, Oxford; after World War II, he joined the colonial civil service and went out to Malaya 1946-1957; served as secretary for Chinese affairs in Malacca and Penang; within MI6: in Rangoon 1957-1960, posted to Shanghai, then Beijing, each for a year; returned to Britain, appointed secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) for 2 years; then posted to Hong Kong; became one of 3 MI6 directors, in charge of technical and support services; retired from MI6 in 1978 and became a director of the Rubber Growers' Association Malaysia based in Kuala Lumpur, where he ran a mini police force for 3 years; 1981-1997, director of operations (China) for Racal Electronics, based in Hong Kong and Beijing; retired to live in Perthshire, Scotland; wrote 7 books (the first 5 self-published); died August 16, 2015, aged 93; his son: Rory Stewart, the Tory MP for Penrith and The Border)


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