Vice Admiral Sir Anthony Knox Dymock KBE, CB,

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(born 18 July 1949) is a senior British

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officer.

Naval career

Educated at Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School,

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where he graduated in Russian and Philosophy, and the Royal Naval College Dartmouth, Dymock joined the Royal Navy in 1971.Debrett's People of Today
After serving in the

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and being promoted to Commander in 1985, he became Commanding Officer of HMS ''Plymouth'' in 1985, Deputy Commander of the UK Task Group during the

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and Commanding Officer of HMS ''Cambeltown'' in 1992. He went on to be Commanding Officer of HMS ''Cornwall'' as well as Captain of the 2nd Frigate Squadron in 1996, Deputy Commander of Strike Force South at

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in 2000Royal Navy Senior Appointments
and Head of the British Defence Staff and Defence

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in 2002. His last appointment was as UK Military Representative to NATO from 2006 until he retired in 2008. He is an alumnus of Harvard's Kennedy School Senior Executive Security Program, and has lectured on security at the

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and the

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. He became a Fellow of the

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in 2005. He is also a Member of the Nautical Institute and a Freeman of the City of London.

References

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