10 Facts About Timothy Bligh

Timothy Bligh was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1940.

Timothy Bligh was awarded the DSC and bar and the DSO, and was appointed an OBE.

Timothy Bligh joined the Civil Service in 1946 as an assistant principal in the Treasury, and was rapidly promoted, reaching the rank of under-secretary in 1959.

Timothy Bligh then served Macmillan's successor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home in the same capacity, until Douglas-Home's defeat in the 1964 British general election.

In 1964 Timothy Bligh left the government's service to become a director of the media chain the Thomson Organisation, and became its assistant managing director in 1966.

Timothy Bligh was briefly active in Conservative politics, as an alderman on the Greater London Council from 1967.

Timothy Bligh interviewed Profumo, who denied any wrongdoing but asked if he should resign to avoid embarrassing the government.

Later, when the affair was unravelling, Timothy Bligh met Ward, who by then, at the Home Office's instigation, was under police investigation regarding possible vice charges.

Timothy Bligh married Ruth Pamela Robertson in 1945; there were two sons and one daughter from the marriage.

Timothy Bligh died at his home in Kent on 12 March 1969, after a long illness.