I Spy... the fact that Paul Henry Dukes is now connected!

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  I made a profile for Sir Paul Henry Dukes and connected him to a distant cousin through marriage, then realized I had a duplicate (thanks Ros for merging!) However, that now means the full profile for Paul Dukes is officially connected to the tree! He's a pretty interesting dude, and the only person knighted solely for his exploits in espionage, which is pretty interesting! :) 

Paul is 20 degrees from Tanya Lowry14 degrees from Charles Tiffany and 16 degrees from Henry VIII of England on our single family tree. Now, to see if we can get back further in his tree! 

WikiTree profile: Paul Dukes
in Genealogy Help by Liz Marshall G2G6 Pilot (112k points)
Working on his ancestry now - and his great grandfather was called "Esquire Dukes"! Illusions of grandeur much? LOL
Lol, glad to see where that came from - Paul’s brother Cuthbert had the middle name Esquire. Imagine being saddled with “Cuthbert Esquire Dukes”...

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Had to look him up as sadly I had no clue who this guy was. Sounds like we should put him on par with Christopher Lee and Ian Fleming (and many others) as a leader in the spy game and a writer of what appears to be non-fiction spy accounts. I was sadly disappointed that neither Amazon nor my local library appear to carry much at all of his works. The only thing I could find was a compilation of spy stories and they included 2 short pieces from him in the book. Guess he'll remain a mystery for now - which is ironic considering that he was the man of a 1000 faces... or was that Lon Chaney Jr?
by Scott Fulkerson G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
selected by Liz Marshall
This man was apparently a cousin of my great grandfather (Edmund Sprague Dukes), but I am struggling to find out much information about Edmunds father.

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