Vernon Kell

[2] After graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Kell was commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment on 10 October 1894,[3] and promoted to lieutenant on 15 December 1896.He could speak German, Italian, French and Polish with equal facility, and after serving and studying in China and Russia, he learned their respective languages too.[9] Rising public fears in Great Britain of German espionage precipitated the creation of a new government intelligence agency.[31] Kell is depicted as an ally of a secret society of bodyguards attached to the radical women's suffrage movement in the graphic novel trilogy Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst's Amazons (2015).[33] In Bill Aitken's novel Blackest of Lies, Kell is involved in the concealment of Lord Kitchener's fictional death at the hands of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
Major GeneralGreat YarmouthIntelligence officerBritish ArmySouth Staffordshire RegimentBoxer RebellionFirst World WarKnight Commander of the Order of the British EmpireCompanion of the Order of the BathOfficer of the Order of LeopoldOfficer of the Legion of HonourOfficer of the Order of Saints Maurice and LazarusWho's WhoNorfolk38th FootRoyal Military College, SandhurstlieutenantTientsinThe Daily TelegraphcaptainWar OfficeMansfield Smith-CummingMI5(g)Indian seditionist movement in EuropeRobert NathanScotland YardBasil Thomsonhis deputyWinston Churchill1919 Birthday HonoursOrder of LeopoldLégion d'honneurOrder of Saints Maurice and LazarusBert CoulesArthur Conan DoyleHis Last Bowwomen's suffrageDennis WheatleyDuke de RichleauJames Edward EdmondsSidney ReillySir Robert Bruce LockhartWilliam MelvilleH. Montgomery HydeThe TimesThe London GazetteDirector General of MI5Brigadier 'Jasper' Harker