John Acland (British Army officer)

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Sir John Acland
Born(1928-11-26)26 November 1928
Died17 November 2006(2006-11-17) (aged 77)
Allegiance
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

officer
.

Early life

Acland was born on 26 November 1928,

British Ambassador in Washington.[1] He was educated at Eton College.[1]

Military career

Having attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Acland was commissioned into the Scots Guards as a second lieutenant on 22 December 1948, with seniority from that date. He was given the service number 397794.[3] He was promoted to lieutenant on 22 December 1950.[4] He fought in the Malayan Emergency. He was promoted to captain on 22 December 1954.[5] With his regiment, he was involved in the Cyprus Emergency of 1957.[2] Subsequently, he was nominated equerry to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, a post he held for the next two years.[6]

Acland attended

Northern Ireland riots of August 1969.[2]

After the announcement of the battalion's possible disbandment, he spoke out against it in a letter to

Commonwealth Monitoring Force.[6] His aide-de-camp during this period was Iain Duncan Smith, who would later go on to lead the Conservative Party and hold several cabinet roles. Acland retired from the Army in 1981.[8]

Later life

After retiring from the military, Acland spent his time as director of Allied Vintners, then as chairman of the South West Working Party on Alcohol.

Deputy Lieutenant from 1985, he was appointed Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Devon in 1995.[9]

Personal life

On 12 November 1953, he married the

fashion model Myrtle Christian Euing Crawford (1928–2013), daughter of Brigadier Alistair Wardrop Euing Crawford. They had a son and daughter.[9][10]

Honours and decorations

In 1978, he was appointed

Knight Commander of Order of the Bath.[11]

He was made honorary colonel of the Royal Devon Yeomanry in 1983 and was granted the same rank also of the Exeter University Officer's Training Corps in 1986 and of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry in 1989.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Obituary - Major-General Sir John Acland". The Telegraph. 5 December 2006. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Obituary - Major-General Sir John Acland". The Times Online. 23 November 2006. Retrieved 3 December 2007.
  3. ^ "No. 38535". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 February 1949. pp. 746–747.
  4. ^ "No. 39096". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 December 1950. p. 6380.
  5. ^ "No. 40354". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 December 1954. p. 7210.
  6. ^ a b c d e "AIM25 - ACLAND, Maj Gen Sir John Hugh Bevil (1928-2006)". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  7. ^ "No. 42545". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 December 1961. p. 9292.
  8. ^ "The contradictory world of Iain Duncan Smith". The Independent. 9 October 2001.
  9. ^ a b "ThePeerage - Maj-Gen Sir John Hugh Bevil Acland". Retrieved 14 December 2006.
  10. ^ "Lady Acland - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 26 December 2013.
  11. ^ "No. 48212". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1980. p. 2.
Military offices
Preceded by GOC South West District
1978–1981 		Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Lord Clifford of Chudleigh
 Honorary Colonel of the Royal Devon Yeomanry
1983–1992 		Succeeded by
Sir John Waters
Preceded by Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry
1989–1992
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