Toby Kinsella: Difference between revisions

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|image       = Sir Toby Kinsella.jpg

|species     = Human

|affiliation = Ministry of Defence

|origin     = [[Earth]]

|spouse     = Mary Cleaver

|first       = Threshold (audio story)

|appearances = [[Toby Kinsella - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]

|voice actor = Hugh Ross

|affiliation2=Intrusion Counter-Measures Group}}

[[Sir]] '''Tobias "Toby" Kinsella''' was a [[British]] civil servant during the [[1960s]], and oversaw the [[Intrusion Counter-Measures Group]] (ICMG).  

Sir Toby was at [[school]] with [[Professor]] [[Jeffrey Broderick]]. During his school days, Kinsella engineered a fight between the [[rugby]] team captain and a boy who had stolen some of his food. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Artificial Intelligence (audio story)|Artificial Intelligence]]'')

During [[World War II]], he was involved in the [[Home-Army Fourth Operational Corps]]. In [[1941]], he personally recruited Professor [[Edward Travers]] to the corps. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Night of the Intelligence (novel)|Night of the Intelligence]]'') He was also involved in a eugenics programme to create "super soldiers"; the plan was that if Germany won, the soldiers could be used to retake Britain. (He later said: "There was a war on! A lot of people did things they weren't proud of!") He was himself one of the test subjects with [[Mary Cleaver]], his wife, but she faked the miscarriage of his son, [[Ray Cleaver]], and divorced him. After the war, Sir Toby would remove all traces of himself from these files. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Fathers (audio story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'') [[Charles Waverly]] was part of the project with him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Manhunt (audio story)|Manhunt]]'') Years later, after Gilmore had accused him of only "pushing papers around" during the war, Toby knocked a man out and implied he'd seen action. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Peshka (audio story)|Peshka]]'')

After the war, he and Waverly continued to be part of the eugenics programme which was now preparing for nuclear war. By this point it was clear that the original creations had [[psychosis]], and the [[Wilcock Institute]] was trying to both "care" for the originals and create versions without this problem. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sins of the Fathers (audio story)|Sins of the Fathers]]'')

In the [[British government|government]], he knew many intelligence secrets (such as the fact that it was in actuality the [[Cambridge Nine]] instead of the [[Cambridge Five]]) and tied to high-ranking figures like [[Peters (State of Emergency)|General Peters]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Artificial Intelligence (audio story)|Artificial Intelligence]]'', ''[[State of Emergency (audio story)|State of Emergency]]'')

One of his oldest friends was Dr [[Elizabeth Bradley]], who worked with the Secret Service. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fifth Citadel (audio story)|The Fifth Citadel]]'') Other old friends including [[Stephen Mulryne]], who went on to become [[Defence Secretary]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: The Assassination Games (audio story)|1963: The Assassination Games]]'')

When pretending to be from the Department of Public Building and Works, Sir Toby was disparaging of the outgoing [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] Sir [[Alec Douglas-Home]], saying that they had been "trying to work out what Earl Home thinks so we can agree with him before he's said it". He admitted that referring to Douglas-Home as "Earl Home", a title that he had dropped by [[1964]], was a hard habit for him to break. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pelage Project (audio story)|The Pelage Project]]'')