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George IV, and coincided with his appointment as a lecturer in En-

glish at King’s College, London. Fulford became a recognized au-

thority on the history of the royal family and was invited by his friend

Guy Burgessto give a BBC radio talk on the coronation of George

IV.

When World War II broke out, Fulford worked as a censor and was

soon transferred to the Security Service, where he worked in the F4

subsection of the division led byRoger Hollis, whom he had known

for some years and had once turned down for a job at theTimes.

Fulford’s role was to monitor the activities of pacifists, peace groups,

and revolutionary movements, all of whom were regarded as poten-

tially subversive. After two years he switched to the Air Ministry,

where he was assistant private secretary to Sir Archibald Sinclair, the

secretary of state for air, until the end of the war. Upon his return to

civilian life, Fulford publishedThe Right Honourable Gentlemanand

continued thereafter to work as a historian and biographer. Despite

his election defeats, his commitment to the Liberal cause was undi-

minished and his loyalty to the party was rewarded in 1980 with a

knighthood, just three years before his death in May 1983.

FUNNY NEUK.Purchased in 1938 by the Chief, AdmiralHugh Sin-
clair, Funny Neuk was a former army camp in Woldingham, Kent,
occupied by theSecret Intelligence Service’sSection VIIIas a
wireless station to serve the War Station atBletchley Park. However,
with the development ofWhaddon Hall, the site became redundant,
and it was loaned in 1940 toFrantisek Moravec’sCzech Intelli-
gence Servicefor the duration of World War II.

FURNIVAL JONES, SIR MARTIN. Director-general of the Secur-
ity Servicefrom 1965 to 1972, Martin Furnival Jones was educated
at Highgate School and won a scholarship to Gonville and Caius Col-
lege, Cambridge, where he read modern and medieval languages and
law. In 1937 he qualified as a solicitor and joined Slaughter & May.
On the outbreak of World War II, Furnival Jones was commissioned
into theIntelligence Corps, transferring toMI5in 1941. At the end
of the war, he remained in MI5, working in the protective security
division based in Cork Street, Mayfair. In 1953 he was appointed di-
rector of C Branch. Three years later he replacedGraham Mitchell