Submitted on Saturday 12th May 2018
Rejected on Thursday 17th May 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
A Blue Plaque for Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair at Queen Anne’s Gate in London.
He ran MI6 for 16 years and established with his own money the codebreaking unit at Bletchley Park that altered the course of the war. The plaque should be located at Queen Anne’s Gate in central London, which was his official residence and linked to MI6’s headquarters by a tunnel.
He ran MI6 from 1923 until his death in 1939, having put in place the Special Operations Executive that was behind a campaign of sabotage in German-occupied territory.
A year before the war he bought Bletchley Park for £6,000 as a wartime intelligence station, realising that base outside London was critical with war looming. It is estimated that the intelligence produced at Bletchley Park shortened the war by between two and four years.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The London Blue Plaque scheme is the responsibility of English Heritage, not the UK Government or Parliament.
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