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Maurice Oldfield
British intelligence officer
Sir Maurice OldfieldGCMG CBE (16 November 1915 – 11 March 1981)[1] was a Britishintelligence officer and espionage administrator.[2][3] He served as the seventh director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), from 1973 to 1978.
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Early life
Oldfield was born on 16 November 1915 at his grandmother's farm just outside Youlgrave, a village in Derbyshire. He grew up at a house called Mona View in Over Haddon. He was the first of 11 children of Joseph Oldfield, tenant farmer, and his wife, Ada Annie Dicken.[4]
He was educated at Lady Manners School at the nearby market town of Bakewell, before winning a scholarship to the Victoria University of Manchester, where he stayed at Hulme Hall.
There, he studied under the historian A. J. P. Taylor[5] and specialised in medieval history. He graduated with a first class degree and was elected to a fellowship.[6]