Cecil Blacker
Sir Cecil Blacker | |
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire Military Cross |
OBE, MC (4 June 1916 – 18 October 2002) was a senior British Army officer and a former Adjutant-General to the Forces
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Military career
Educated at Wellington College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Cecil Blacker was commissioned into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in January 1936.[1][2]
He was
Commanding Officer of the 23rd Hussars in 1945.[3]
Blacker commanded the
General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 3rd Division from 1964 to 1966.[3]
He was appointed
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Northern Command in 1969[1] and then went on to become Vice Chief of the General Staff in 1970[1] before becoming Adjutant General in 1973:[1] he held this post until he retired in 1976.[1] In 1974 his home was badly damaged by an IRA bomb[4]
He was
ADC General to the Queen from 1974 to 1976.[1] He was also Colonel of the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards from 1972 to 1981.[5]
Blacker was appointed a
Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1960.[1]
He lived in Hook Norton near Banbury in Oxfordshire.
Showjumping
Blacker was an Amateur
Showjumper. He rode in the 1948 Grand National. He rode Pointsman to win the Grand Military Gold Cup at Cheltenham in 1954.[3] He represented Great Britain in Showjumping from 1959 to 1961.[3] He was President both of the British Showjumping Association from 1976 to 1980 and of the British Equestrian Federation from 1980 to 1984.[1] He was a member of the Horse Race Betting Levy Board from 1980 to 1983.[1]
Family
In 1947 he married Felicity Mary Rew and together they went on to have two sons, writer Terence Blacker and sculptor and former jockey Philip Blacker.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Debrett's People of Today 1994
- ^ "No. 34251". The London Gazette. 31 January 1936. p. 670.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Obituary: General Sir Cecil Blacker The Times, 23 October 2002
- ^ Crime in Britain Today
- ^ "5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 27 February 2007. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
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