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Sir Anthony Knox Dymock, (born 18 July 1949) is a retired senior

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officer.

Naval career

Educated at Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School,

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where he graduated in Russian and Philosophy, and the Royal Naval College Dartmouth, Dymock joined the Royal Navy in 1971.Debrett's People of Today
He served in the

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, was promoted to commander on 30 June 1985, and became commanding officer of in 1985. He was Deputy Commander of the UK Task Group during the

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, and commanding officer of in 1992. He went on to be commanding officer of and captain of the 2nd Frigate Squadron in 1996, Deputy Commander of Strike Force South at

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in 2000,Royal Navy Senior Appointments
and Head of the British Defence Staff and Defence

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in 2002. His last appointment was as UK Military Representative to NATO from 2006 until he retired in February 2009. Dymock is an alumnus of Harvard's Kennedy School Senior Executive Security Program, and has lectured on security at the

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and the

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. He became a Fellow of the

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

References

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