British intelligence and law enforcement executive
Sir Stephen James Lander , KCB (born 1947) is a former chairman of the United Kingdom 's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) , who also served as Director General of the British Security Service (MI5 ) from 1996 to 2002.
Career
Lander attended Parkside School , then located in East Horsley , prior to its move to Cobham ,[1] [2] Bishop's Stortford College and Queens' College, Cambridge , where he earned a doctorate in history entitled The diocese of Chichester 1508–1558 : Episcopal reform under Robert Sherburne and its aftermath . In 1975, after three years at the Institute of Historical Research (part of the University of London ) where he was assistant editor of the Victoria History of Cheshire, and serving as an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Liverpool, he joined MI5.[3] He was Director General of MI5 from 1996 to 2002.[4]
In April 2006, he was appointed chairman of Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) .[5] He retired from that post in 2009.[6]
In 1972, he married Felicity Mary Brayley and had a son and daughter.[7] In September 2002, his son James died at age 28 of acute blood poisoning caused by drug and alcohol toxicity.[8]
References
^ "Parkside School: celebrating more than 130 years of providing first class education in Surrey" . Great British Life . 23 May 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2022 .
^ Davis, Michael (1979). Purple Passages: Parkside 1879–1979 . Sidney Press.
^ The Security Service Archived 2005-10-18 at the Wayback Machine
^ The Defence of the Realm , by Christopher Andrew, Page 560, Published by Allen Lane, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7139-9885-6
^ " 'British FBI' to have new powers" . BBC. 11 January 2006.
^ MoD Civil Servant appointed Head of SOCA Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2009
^ Mosley, Charles , ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2231. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1 .
^ "MI5 chief's son died of blood poisoning" . The Independent . 26 November 2002. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2019 .