Rodney Dennys

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Rodney Onslow Dennys, Template:Postnominals (16 July 1911 – 13 August 1993) was a British foreign service operative and long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. During World War II he served in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.[1]

Early life

Rodney Dennys was born on 16 July 1911 at Ipoh, Perak, in the colony of British Malaya, where his father Frederick Dennys was a civil servant. He was educated at Canford School, before joining the Foreign Office.[1]

Career

Dennys joined the Foreign Service in 1937. During World War II, he was a member of the Intelligence Corps. For his war work in the Middle East, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 14 October 1943.[2] He returned to the Foreign Office,serving in various intelligence posts, including Cairo, Ankara and Paris, where he was First Secretary.[1] He was granted the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel on 1 January 1949,[3] and relinquished his commission in 1966, retaining that rank.[4]

Dennys joined the staff at the College of Arms in 1958. His first heraldic appointment came on 8 August 1961 when he was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary to replace Walter Verco.[5] He continued in this office until 1967 when he was appointed Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary.[6] He held this position until his retirement in 1982,[7] after which he was granted the post of Arundel Herald of Arms Extraordinary.[8] In 1969 he was made a Member (4th Class) of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO), on the occasion of the Investiture of the Prince of Wales,[9] in the 1982 New Year Honours he was promoted to Commander (CVO).[10] In 1983 he was appointed High Sheriff of East Sussex.[11]

Personal life

Dennys's wife, Elizabeth, was a sister of the late Graham Greene. They had one son and two daughters.[12]

Publications

  • Rodney Dennys. The Heraldic Imagination. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1975.
  • Rodney Dennys. Heraldry and the Heralds. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 and 1984.

See also

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