Vice Admiral

Vice Admiral

Vice admiral is a senior naval rank of a three-star flag officer, which is equivalent to lieutenant general in the other uniformed services. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral...

 Sir Anthony Knox Dymock KBE

Order of the British Empire

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 CB

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 (born 18 July 1949) is a senior British Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 officer.

Naval career

Educated at Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School, University of East Anglia

University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...

 where he graduated in Russian and Philosophy, and the Royal Naval College Dartmouth

Britannia Royal Naval College

Britannia Royal Naval College is the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy, located on a hill overlooking Dartmouth, Devon, England. While Royal Naval officer training has taken place in the town since 1863, the buildings which are seen today were only finished in 1905, and...

, Dymock joined the Royal Navy in 1971. After serving in the Falklands War

Falklands War

The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

 and being promoted to Commander in 1985, he became Commanding Officer of HMS Plymouth

HMS Plymouth (F126)

HMS Plymouth is a Rothesay class frigate, which served in the United Kingdom Royal Navy from 1959 to 1988. She was named after the English city of Plymouth...

 in 1985, Deputy Commander of the UK Task Group during the Gulf War

Gulf War

The Persian Gulf War , commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war is also known under other names, such as the First Gulf...

 and Commanding Officer of HMS Cambeltown

HMS Campbeltown (F86)

HMS Campbeltown was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the British Royal Navy. Built by Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd. in Birkenhead, she was part of the third batch of Type 22s, which were considerably larger than their predecessors and incorporated more advanced weaponry after lessons learnt from the...

 in 1992. He went on to be Commanding Officer of HMS Cornwall

HMS Cornwall (F99)

The sixth HMS Cornwall was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the British Royal Navy. She was the first Batch 3 to be built, and the last to decommission...

 in 1996, Deputy Commander of Strike Force South at NATO in 2000 and Defence Attaché

Attaché

Attaché is a French term in diplomacy referring to a person who is assigned to the diplomatic or administrative staff of a higher placed person or another service or agency...

 in Washington D. C. 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

Harvard University

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 Kennedy School Senior Executive Security Program, and has lectured on security at the National Defense University

National Defense University

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 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Royal Society of Arts

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