Anthony Dymock
{{Short description|Royal Navy admiral}}
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Vice Admiral Sir Anthony Knox Dymock, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|KBE|CB|FRSA}} (born 18 July 1949) is a retired senior Royal Navy officer.
Naval career
Educated at Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School, University of East Anglia where he graduated in Russian and Philosophy, and the Royal Naval College Dartmouth, Dymock joined the Royal Navy in 1971.[http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/26178/Anthony%20Knox+DYMOCK.aspx Debrett's People of Today] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000622/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/26178/Anthony%20Knox%2BDYMOCK.aspx |date=31 December 2013 }} He served in the Falklands War, was promoted to commander on 30 June 1985,{{London Gazette|issue=50204|supp=y|page=10103|date=22 July 1985}} and became commanding officer of {{HMS|Plymouth|F126|6}} in 1985. He was Deputy Commander of the UK Task Group during the Gulf War, and commanding officer of {{HMS|Campbeltown|F86|6}} in 1992. He went on to be commanding officer of {{HMS|Cornwall|F99|6}} and captain of the 2nd Frigate Squadron in 1996, Deputy Commander of Strike Force South at NATO in 2000,[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf Royal Navy Senior Appointments] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315105247/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |date=15 March 2012 }} and Head of the British Defence Staff and Defence Attaché in Washington, D.C. 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 National Defense University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005. He is also a Member of the Nautical Institute and a Freeman of the City of London.
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Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Category:Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Category:Royal Navy vice admirals
Category:British naval attachés
Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Military personnel from Liverpool
Category:21st-century Royal Navy personnel