Barney White-Spunner
Sir Barney White-Spunner | |
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (United States)Officer of the Legion of Merit | |
| Other work | Executive Chairman of the Countryside Alliance and Director of the Countryside Alliance Foundation. Chairman, Advisory Board, UK Fisheries Ltd |
CBE (born 1957) is a retired British Army officer, who was subsequently executive chairman of the Countryside Alliance
until 2016. He is an author, a director of Burstock Ltd. and was appointed chairman of the advisory board of UK Fisheries Ltd in October 2018.
Military career
Educated at
Macedonia.[1]
He became commander of the
16 Air Assault Brigade in December 2000[1] and was given command of the Kabul Multinational Brigade in 2002 before becoming Chief of Joint Force Operations for the national contingent in the Middle East in 2003.[1]
By 2005, he was chief of staff at
Commander of the Field Army in 2009.[5]
He was appointed
On 7 January 2010, White-Spunner
He retired from the British Army in December 2011[10][11] and was appointed Executive Chairman of the Countryside Alliance and Director of the Countryside Alliance Foundation in January 2012.[10][11]
He retired from The Countryside Alliance in 2016.[12] He subsequently became a director of Burstock Ltd.[13] He was appointed chairman of the advisory board of UK Fisheries in October 2018.[14]
Authorship
White-Spunner first wrote articles for The Field magazine in 1992.[1] Publications (chronological order):
- Baily's Hunting Companion, Cambridge, England: Baily's, 1994, OCLC 49733085co-authored with British Field Sports Society.
- Our Countryside, Cambridge, England: Baily's, 1996, OCLC 38474081co-authored with Simon Everett
- Great Days, Cambridge, England: Baily's, 1997, OCLC 51743648— Contains extracts from past editions of Baily's hunting directory.
- Horse Guards, London: Macmillan, 2006, OCLC 61302547
- Of Living Valour : the Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo, London: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2015, OCLC 904549365
- Partition: The Story of Indian Independence and the Creation of Pakistan in 1947, London: Simon & Schuster, 2017, OCLC 1023209355
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Barney White-Spunner: the very model of a modern Major General The Independent, 3 August 2008
- ^ "No. 55365". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 January 1999. p. 53.
- ^ "No. 57641". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 May 2005. p. 6409.
- ^ "No. 58497". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 October 2007. p. 15669.
- ^ "No. 59120". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 July 2009. p. 11615.
- ^ "No. 56735". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 October 2002. p. 7.
- ^ "No. 59808". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2011. p. 2.
- ^ Queen's Birthday Honours List 2011 Archived 30 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Oral Evidence The Iraq Inquiry, 7 January 2010
- ^ a b Top soldier is Countryside Alliance's new boss Archived 19 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine Horse and Hound, 19 January 2012
- ^ a b Former Head of UK Field Army Appointed to lead Countryside Alliance Countryside Alliance, 19 January 2012
- ^ "Simon Hart MP returns to the Countryside Alliance". Countryside Alliance. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- ^ "About us". Burstock. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- ^ "UK Fisheries appoints Sir Barney White-Spunner to chair Advisory Board". UK Fisheries. 31 October 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
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