12. Rosemary Beryl Ryder

ROSEMARY BERYL RYDER (twin of Geoffrey) was born 08 Aug 1909 in Essex, England.

She married COMMANDER SIR CMG. RN S.P. CLIVE LEOHNIS 17 Apr 1929 in London, England. He was born on the 24th of August 1902 in London England (3rd Qtr Chelsea), son of Herman Loehnis of New York, USA who had emigrated to Britian and become a Barrister.

Clive Loehnis joined the Royal Navy, graduating from the Royal Naval College, Osbourne, the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He became qualified in signals in 1928 and left the Navy in 1935 as a lieutenant commander. In 1938 he returned to the Signals Division of the Admiralty, where he earned the silver oak leaves of a commander before retiring in 1942 and going into the Naval Intelligence Division. When he was demobilised after the war, he joined GCHQ, at that time a semi-covert division of the Foreign Office.

Loehnis was appointed deputy to Sir Eric Jones when the latter succeeded Edward Travis as Director of GCHQ in 1952. When Jones retired in 1960, Loehis was promoted to the directorship, which he held until 1964. He was knighted in 1962.

Sir Clive Loehnis died at Belgravia, London on the 23rd of May 1992, aged 91. Rosemary died at London in December 2006, aged 97.

Children of ROSEMARY RYDER and CLIVE LEOHNIS are:

i. SERENA JANE LEOHNIS 1932

ii. ANTHONY DAVID LEOHNIS 1936

iii PETER JOHN LOEHNIS 1940