Background
Annesley was born in Dublin and educated at Street Andrew"s Preparatory School and the Avoca School for Boys in Blackrock.
Annesley was born in Dublin and educated at Street Andrew"s Preparatory School and the Avoca School for Boys in Blackrock.
Rising through the ranks to chief superintendent in 1974, he attended the Special Course (1963), Intermediate Command Course (1971) and Senior Command Course (1975) at the Police Staff College, Bramshill, before transferring to Sussex Police as Assistant Chief Constable (Personnel & Operations) in 1976.
He served as Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary from June 1989 to November 1996. He joined the Metropolitan Police in London as a constable in 1958. He attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1980 and the following year returned to the Metropolitan Police as Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Central & North West London).
In 1983 he became Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Personnel) and in 1984 was director of the Force Re-organisation Team.
Under the new organisational structure, in April 1985 he was appointed Assistant Commissioner Personnel and Training (ACPT) and in 1987 became Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations (ACSO). In 1986 he had graduated from the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Executive Institute in the United States.
In 1989 he took up command of the RUC, despite the post being widely expected to go to Geoffrey Dear, and held the post until his retirement in 1996.
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Married Elizabeth Ann MacPherson in 1970.