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Guy Burgess

Born Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess
April 11, 1911(1911-04-11)
Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, England
Died August 30, 1963 (aged 52)
Moscow, Russia
Cause of death alcoholism
Nationality British

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Biography

Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was born on 16 April 1911 at 2 Albemarle Villas, Devonport, the elder son of Commander Malcolm Kingsford de Moncy Burgess RN and his wife, Evelyn Mary, daughter of William Gillman. He attended Lockers Park Prep Schooland the a period at Eton College Burgess spent two years at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, but poor eyesight ended his naval prospects and he returned to Eton. Lockers Park School is a day and boarding preparatory school for 140 boys situated in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Eton College, or just Eton, is a world-famous British Independent school for boys founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC is the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy, located on a hill overlooking Dartmouth, Devon He won an open scholarship to read modern history at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1930, gained a first in part one of the history tripos (1932) and an aegrotat in part two (1933), and held a two-year postgraduate teaching fellowship. Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Whilst at Cambridge , where he was recruited into the Cambridge Apostles, a secret, elite debating society, whose members at the time included Anthony Blunt. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the The Cambridge Apostles, also known as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, is an elite intellectual Secret society at the University of Cambridge founded Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 Bournemouth, Hampshire &ndash 26 March 1983 Westminster, London) known as Sir Anthony Like Blunt, Burgess was gay.

Notorious for his bad behaviour and overt alcoholism, Burgess initially worked for The Times and, briefly, the BBC, as the Producer of The Week in Westminster, covering Parliamentary activity - wherein he was able to further his acquaintance with important politicians. Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. He spent some time in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of At Cambridge, he had been a friend of Julian Bell, the English poet who was killed while driving an ambulance in that conflict. Julian Heward Bell ( 4 February 1908 &ndash 18 July 1937) was an English poet and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, the Burgess and the other members of the "Five" were divided with regard to the impact of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which compromised their hard left ideals.

Wanted poster of Burgess (right) with Donald Duart Maclean.
Wanted poster of Burgess (right) with Donald Duart Maclean. Donald Duart Maclean (məˈkleɪn 25 May, 1913 Marylebone, London – 6 March, 1983 Moscow) was a British

Burgess was most useful to the Soviets in his position as secretary to the British Deputy Foreign Minister, Hector McNeil. Hector McNeil ( 10 March 1907 &ndash 11 October 1955) was a Scottish Labour politician As McNeil's secretary, Burgess was able to transmit top secret Foreign Office documents to the KGB on a regular basis, secreting them out at night to be photographed by his controller and returning them to McNeil's desk in the morning. When assigned to Washington DC, Hector McNeil cautioned him to avoid three things: "the race thing", contact with the radical element, and homosexual adventuring. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D "Oh," quipped Burgess, "you mean I shouldn't make a pass at Paul Robeson?"

Assigned to the British embassy in the USA, Burgess continued his life as an unpredictable heavy drinker and indiscreet homosexual. Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson ( April 9, 1898 &ndash January 23, 1976) was a multi-lingual American Actor, athlete He lived with Kim Philby in a basement flat, perhaps so that Philby could keep an eye on him. Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or HAR Philby ( OBE: 1946-1965 ( 1 January, 1912 – 11 May, 1988) Nonetheless, Burgess was irrepressible, once insulting the wife of a high-ranking CIA official at one of Philby's dinner parties. near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all The FBI described him in a report as "a loud, foul-mouthed queer with a penchant for seducing hitchhikers. "

Burgess accompanied Donald Maclean in an escape to Moscow after Maclean fell under suspicion for espionage, even though Burgess himself was not under suspicion. Donald Duart Maclean (məˈkleɪn 25 May, 1913 Marylebone, London – 6 March, 1983 Moscow) was a British Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of The escape was arranged by their controller, Yuri Modin. Yuri Modin (1922- present was the KGB controller for the " Cambridge Five " from 1944 to 1955 during which period Donald MacLean was said to have There is some debate as to why Burgess was asked to accompany MacLean, and whether he was misled about the prospect for him returning to England. Unlike Maclean, who became a respected Soviet citizen in exile and lived until 1983, Burgess did not take to life in the USSR very well. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Homosexuality was far less acceptable in the Soviet Union, and this may have been a problem, even though he had a state-sanctioned lover. Also, unlike Maclean, he never bothered to learn Russian, and even continued to order his clothes from his Savile Row tailor. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Savile Row (ˈsævɪl both vowels short with accent on the first syllable is a shopping street in Mayfair, central London, famous for its traditional men's

Becoming ever more dependent on drink, he appears to have been killed by his alcoholism, aged 52.

Harold Nicolson, diplomat and writer, describes Burgess a year before his defection in a letter to his wife:

'I dined with Guy Burgess. Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG ( November 21 1886 &ndash May 1 1968) was an English Diplomat Oh my dear, what a sad, sad thing this constant drinking is! Guy used to have one of the most rapid and acute minds I knew. Now his is just an imitation (and a pretty bad one) of what he once was. Not that he was actually drunk yesterday. He was just soaked and silly. I felt angry about it. '
-Harold Nicolson to his wife Vita Sackville-West, 25 January 1950

Chronology

Works based on his life

Biographies, etc.

Deacon, Richard (1986), The Cambridge Apostles: a History of Cambridge University's Elite Intellectual Secret Society. The Cambridge Apostles, also known as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, is an elite intellectual Secret society at the University of Cambridge founded

Modin, Yuri (1994), My Five Cambridge Friends. Yuri Modin (1922- present was the KGB controller for the " Cambridge Five " from 1944 to 1955 during which period Donald MacLean was said to have

Newton, Verne W. (1991), The Cambridge Spies: the Untold Story of Maclean, Philby, and Burgess in America.

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