* Roger Hollis – Director General of MI5.

Related to this failure were suggestions of a high-level penetration within the service, Peter Wright ( especially in his controversial book Spycatcher ) and others believing that evidence implicated the former Director-General himself, Roger Hollis.

* 1956 – 1965: Sir Roger Hollis ( from 1960, Sir Roger Hollis ) ( b. 1905 – d.

Keeler's affair with Profumo was terminated by the government's Cabinet Secretary, Sir Norman Brook, who spoke to him on the advice of Sir Roger Hollis, the head of MI5.

In the British service, the cases of the Cambridge Five, and the later suspicions about MI5 chief Sir Roger Hollis caused great internal dissension.

Other friends included Daily Telegraph editor Colin Coote, MI5 head Roger Hollis, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt, Conservative MP Geoffrey Nicholson, infamous slumlord Peter Rachman, and the actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

In her 2001 autobiography, Keeler claimed, without supporting evidence, that the MI5 chief Roger Hollis was a Soviet spy and that Ward ran a spy ring which included Hollis and Sir Anthony Blunt.

Aitken wrote a highly confidential letter to Thatcher in early 1980, dealing with allegations that the former Director-General of MI5, Sir Roger Hollis, had been a double agent also working for the Soviet Union.

Gordievsky noted that the KGB were puzzled by and denied the claim that Director General of MI5 Roger Hollis was a Soviet agent.

Spycatcher details the author ’ s work seeking to discover a Soviet mole in MI5, and that the said mole was Roger Hollis — a former MI5 Director General ; it also describes people who might have or might not have been the mole ; and renders a history of MI5 by chronicling its principal officers, from the 1930s to his time in service.

As claimed in Spycatcher, Wright had come to believe that Roger Hollis was the highest traitor in MI5.

The case made by Wright against Roger Hollis was brought up-to-date by Chapman Pincher in his Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain ( 2009 ).

These included Les Ross ( who made his name locally with a long running breakfast show on BRMB ), David Hamilton, Tony Brandon, Mike Wyer, Tony Lyman, John Darvall, Jeff Harris, Roger Day, Andy Holmes, Mike Baker, Mike Hollis, Andy Marriott, Bev Bevan, Tom Clarke-Hill, Pete Johnson, Adrian Jackson, Chris Rolinson and Sheila Tracy.

Sir Roger Henry Hollis, KBE, CB ( 2 December 1905-26 October 1973 ) was a British journalist and secret-service agent, who was Director General of MI5 from 1956 to 1965.

Roger Henry Hollis was born at Wells in Somerset, on 2 December 1905, the third of the four sons of the Revd George Arthur Hollis ( 1868 – 1944 ), vice-principal of Wells Theological College and later bishop-suffragan of Taunton, and his wife, Mary Margaret, the daughter of Charles Marcus Church, canon of Wells, a great-niece of R. W. Church, dean of St Paul's Cathedral.

In the 2009 ITV program Inside MI5: The Real Spooks Oleg Gordievsky recounted how he saw the head of the British section of the KGB, expressing surprise at the allegations that he read in a British newspaper about Roger Hollis being a KGB agent saying " Why is it they are speaking about Roger Hollis, such nonsense, can't understand it, it must be some special English trick directed against us " But Chapman Pincher in Treachery states that Hollis was believed to be a GRU agent, the GRU being a different organisation to the KGB.

) Innovations in bracing design have emerged, notably the A-brace developed by British luthier Roger Bucknall of Fylde Guitars.

Its iconic characters such as Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Calamity James, Ball Boy, Ivy the Terrible and Billy Whizz have become known to generations of British children.

The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903, including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives.

* 1944 – Roger Scruton, British philosopher

* 1707 24 December – The first British Governor directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, took up residence in the Convent of the Franciscan friars.

* 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

His father, Roger Sterne, was an Ensign in a British regiment recently returned from Dunkirk.

Many Irish members of the British Army were interned there until the end of the war and at one stage they were visited by the Irish republican leader Roger Casement in an attempt to win recruits for the forthcoming Irish rebellion.

He learned additional concepts in mathematics from the British mathematician Roger Penrose.

* 1936 – Roger Whittaker, British singer

* 1877 – Roger Quilter, British composer ( d. 1953 )

According to anthropologist Roger D. Abrahams, these traditional performance art forms are " Nevisian approximation of British performance codes, techniques, and patterns ".

** Roger Delgado, British actor ( d. 1973 )

* December 26 – Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral ( b. 1872 )

* April 8 – Roger Chapman, British rock singer ( Family )

* December 21 – Roger Avon, British actor ( b. 1914 )

* March 23 – Sir Roger Bannister, British athlete

* December 24 – The first British Governor of Gibraltar, directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, takes up his residence in the Convent of the Franciscan Friars.

** Roger Williamson, British race car driver ( b. 1948 )

* October 4 – Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral ( d. 1945 )

** Roger Tonge, British actor ( b. 1946 )

* November 23 – Roger Newdigate, British politician ( b. 1719 )

* September 9 – Roger Fry, British artist ( b. 1866 )

* July 17 – Roger Sheaffe, British General

* April 25 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist ( d. 1679 )