Peter Marychurch

Sir Peter Marychurch KCMG (born 13 June 1927 [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020613/ai_n12613013 Birthdays | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ] ) 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. [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060613/ai_n16475077 Gazette BIRTHS, MARRIAGES & DEATHS: Birthdays | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ] [http://www.abrsm.org/resources/annualReviews/annual_review_2000.pdf]

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. [Peter Wright, Spycatcher, p. 153, 1987]

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