Researching Rex Stevenson
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 21014 people with the Stevenson surname? In that year Stevenson was ranked number 168 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Rex means "king" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Rex Stevenson on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Rex Stevenson and the Stevenson Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 31062 people with the Stevenson surname in the UK? Stevenson is now ranked number 152 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 94186 people with the Stevenson surname in the USA? Stevenson is ranked number 126 for popularity in the USA. |
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Rex Stevenson
Rex Kenneth Stevenson (born 16 October 1942) is an Australian company director and former intelligence officer, who was the Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service from 1992 to 1998.
Born in Melbourne, Stevenson attended Northcote High School, and then studied a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a Master of Arts at Monash University. His 1970 masters thesis, Cultivators and administrators: British educational policy towards the Malays, 1875–1906, was published as a book by Oxford University Press in 1975.
Stevenson began his career as an intelligence officer in 1973, and by 1990 he was the Deputy Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). On 25 November 1992, he was promoted to acting Director-General and was officially appointed to the role two weeks later on 9 December.
After his retirement from ASIS in 1998, Stevenson co-founded the security consulting firms Signet Group and Spectrum Consultancy.
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