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John Horace Ragnar Colvin, CMG, (Tokyo, Japan 18 June 1922 - London, 4 October 2003) was a British sailor, intelligence officer, banker and military historian. ==Family== The Colvin family had a long history of service to Queen and country (and British Empire), both in the military and administration. John Horace Ragnar Colvin was the son of Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin, KBE, CB; the grandson of Clement Sneyd Colvin;〔''Australian Dictionary of Biography''〕 and the great-grandson of John Russell Colvin, lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces of British India during the mutiny of 1857, who had ten children and founded a dynasty of Empire-builders. Relatives included Walter Mytton and Auckland, also lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces and Oudh. Brenda Colvin (1897–1981)〔(ONDB )〕 was an important landscape architect, author of standard works in the field and a force behind its professionalisation. Sidney Colvin was a critic, curator, and great friend of Robert Louis Stevenson. Colvin married twice. His first marriage was to Anne Manifold in 1948, which ended in 1963. His second was to Moranna Cazenove in 1967. Each marriage produced a daughter and a son. His former wife Anne later married Admiral Sir Anthony Monckton Synnot, KBE AO Royal Australian Navy (5 January 1922 – 4 July 2001), Chief of the Defence Force Staff between 1979 and 1982. She became Lady Synnot. One of Colvin's children (with Anne) is Mark Colvin, an Australian journalist.〔(It's not only double agents who lead double lives ), Mark Colvin, ABC Online, 5 August 2009〕 His granddaughter is the Australian born but currently Bristol based illustrator (Anna Higgie ). Colvin's granddaughter (through Moranna) is currently a Senior Sea Cadets with Training Ship CHALLENGER in Wandsworth with hopes to join The Royal Navy as a medic, to follow her grandfather's footsteps. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Horace Ragnar Colvin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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