Later Life
On his retirement in late 1965, Hollis moved first to a house in Wells, which he occupied only until 1967. In 1968 his first marriage was dissolved, and he married Edith Valentine Hammond, his former secretary. They moved to Catcott in Somerset, where Hollis played golf and undertook some modest jobs in local government. Peter Wright in Spycatcher asserts that Hollis and Hammond were carrying on a long-standing affair while both were at MI5. Hammond, according to Wright, was eligible for promotion at many points during her long service, including non-clerical positions related to intelligence analysis, but she consistently refused the opportunity to move to higher positions in MI5 in order to stay close to Hollis as his secretary.
His son, Adrian Hollis (born August 2, 1940 in Bristol), is a Grandmaster of correspondence chess, and was British Correspondence Chess Champion in 1966, 1967, and 1971. Philosopher Martin Hollis (1938–1998) was his nephew. His elder brother, (Maurice) Christopher Hollis (1902–1977), was a Conservative MP for Devizes from 1945 to 1955.
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