Colin Figures

Sir Colin Frederick Figures (1 July 1925 – 8 December 2006) was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (known as MI6) from 1981 to 1985. During this time he had oversight of the supply of human intelligence information, including Argentine positions and their stocks of Exocet missiles, to the UK Government during the Falklands War. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and served in The Worcestershire Regiment from 1943 until 1948,

After a period in London, he served in Germany, served in Amman during the Suez Crisis, in Warsaw, and in Vienna during the Prague Spring, before returning to London. He received an OBE in 1969 and CMG in 1978, and advanced to KCMG in 1983.

He retired from SIS in 1985, and became Intelligence Co-ordinator at the Cabinet Office. He finally retired in 1989.

He married Pamela Ann Timmis in 1956. He suffered from Parkinson's disease in later life, and died in Esher. He was survived by his wife, and their son and two daughters.