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|name = The Baroness Park of Monmouth
|image = Baroness Park of Monmouth 2010.png
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1921|09|01|}}
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2010|03|24|1921|09|01}}
|title = Baroness Park of Monmouth
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==Early life and education==
Daphne Park was born to John Alexander and Doreen Gwynneth Park. Her father had contracted tuberculosis as a young man and was sent to Africa for rest and recuperation. He moved from South Africa to [[Nyasaland]] (now [[Malawi]]), and served as an intelligence officer during [[World War II]]. Thereafter he owned a tobacco plantation
When Park was 11, she returned to England and was educated at [[Rosa Bassett School]] in [[Streatham]] and at [[Somerville College, Oxford]], where she graduated with a B.A. in modern languages in 1943. She was further educated at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]], where she received a Certificate of Competent Knowledge in Russian in 1952.
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She rose further through the ranks of the Foreign Office to serve in the [[British High Commission]] in [[Lusaka]] from 1964 to 1967 and then [[Consul-General]] to [[Hanoi]] from 1969 to 1970. In 1972 she was [[Chargé d'Affaires]] of the British Embassy of [[Ulan Bator]] for several months. From 1973 onwards she served in the Foreign Office then retired two years early in 1979 to become Principal of Somerville College, Oxford.<ref name="DT" />
Despite her known intelligence service, SIS would neither confirm nor deny she was under their employment.<ref>{{cite news |last=Warrell |first=Helen |date=8 December 2022 |title=The secret lives of MI6's top female spies |url=https://www.ft.com/content/741772c0-ee76-4d3d-bfcd-4fabc1fb405d |work=Financial Times |location= |access-date=20 December 2022}}</ref>
==Affiliations==
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* Paddy Hayes: Queen of spies, The autobiography of Daphne Park. Duckworth Publishers, 2015.
* [[Susan Williams (historian)|Susan Williams]]: Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore that Built the Atomic Bomb. Hurst, June 2016, {{ISBN|9781849046381}}
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