Peter Marychurch

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Sir Peter Marychurch KCMG (born 13 June 1927[1]) is a former director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1983 to 1989. He has also served as the chairman of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music from 1994 to 2000.[2][3]

Marychurch lends his name to the "Sir Peter Marychurch award", an honour given annually for work in international cryptology.

According to the memoirs of a former MI5 intelligence officer, in the 1960s, Marychurch, then a young GCHQ cryptanalyst, applied computerised cluster analysis to the problem of traffic analysis of espionage traffic.[4]

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  1. ^ Birthdays | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com
  2. ^ Gazette BIRTHS, MARRIAGES & DEATHS: Birthdays | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com
  3. ^ http://www.abrsm.org/resources/annualReviews/annual_review_2000.pdf
  4. ^ Peter Wright, Spycatcher, p. 153, 1987
Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Brian Tovey		 Director of GCHQ
1983 - 1989		 Succeeded by
Sir John Adye