The man that saw Winston Churchill naked, transcribed some of history’s most famous speaches and met all of the Allied leaders has died.

Patrick Kinna, 95, was the Prime Minister’s wartime personal assistant, before settling in Brighton more than 40 years ago.

Mr Kinna, who died on March 14, worked as a confidential shorthand clerk for Churchill from 1941 to 1945 and rarely left the Prime Minister's side during this time.

Over the years he met most of the key Allied figures including Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

Churchill often used to dictate letters and memos to Mr Kinna from his bath and one of his favourite stories came from an incident at the White House at Christmas 1941.

Kinna was summoned to take notes while the Prime Minister was soaking in the bath and on occasion Churchill would get out and pace about as he spoke with nothing on.

At one stage there was a knock on the door and when Churchill opened it, Roosevelt was there in his wheelchair.

The mortified president tried to leave but Churchill said: “Oh, no,no, no Mrs President. As you can see, I have nothing to hide from you.”

Mr Kinna was born on September 5 1913 and was the youngest of eight children.

He took a course in shorthand and typing and worked as a bank clerk while deciding whether to be a journalist or skating instructor.

He joined the Territorial Army in 1939 and was singled out for his secretarial skills and ability to speak French which led to him being posted to Paris as a secretary for the War Cabinet before escaping back to England when the French government capitulated in June 1940.

His discretion while taking part in a Atlantic crossing January 1941 aimed at making secret preparations for the US's possible entry into the war impressed his seniors and he was later summoned to 10 Downing Street, where he finally met Churchill and from then on accompanied him on all his trips abroad.

Mr Kinna recalled Churchill was not impressed by Stalin and described him as a “terrible man...evil and dreadful.”

After the general election of 1945, Churchill asked Mr Kinna to stay on as his private secretary but he refused as he was tired of the long hours.

He went on to work for foreign secretary Ernest Bevin until 1951 before going on to work at the timber firm Montague Meyer.

Her retired when he was 60 and went to live with his sister Gladys in Brighton, where he stayed ever since.

Former Brighton Kemptown MP Sir Andrew Bowden, who knew Mr Kinna well, said: “He was a well respected and very dignified man and it was a privilege to have known him.

“He had a wealth of knowledge and lived through such an important part of history. He was a perfect gentleman.”

Mr Kinna’s nephew Michael, paid tribute to his uncle, saying: ”He was a very honourable man.

“He gave a number of talks right into his eightites on his times during the war and included several anecdote but always says he had neverever seen Churchill the worse for drink.”

Mr Kinna was unmarried.