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Deputy Lieutenant Of Greater London
A deputy lieutenant of Greater London is commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London. Deputy lieutenants support the work of the lord-lieutenant. There can be several deputy lieutenants at any time, depending on the population of the county. Their appointment does not terminate with the changing of the lord-lieutenant, but they usually retire at age 75. 20th Century , style="text-align:left; width:33%; vertical-align:top;", *23 May 1966: Sir Cyril Wilson Black *23 May 1966: Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Hugh Craig, *23 May 1966: Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Frank Herbert Everingham, *23 May 1966: Brigadier Sir George Steven Harvie-Watt, *23 May 1966: Colonel (Honorary Brigadier) Harold Brian Jolly, *23 May 1966: Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Archer Frederick Leggett, *23 May 1966: Colonel Sir Stuart Sidney Mallinson, *23 May 1966: Sir James Marshall *23 May 1966: Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Basil Monk, *23 May 1966: Major (Honorary Lieute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Lieutenant Of Greater London
The Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London is the personal representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in Greater London. Each Lord-Lieutenant is assisted in, largely ceremonial, duties by Deputy Lieutenants whom he appoints; the Lieutenancy Office is based at Whitehall, London SW1. The Lord-Lieutenant is also assisted by a Lord-Lieutenant's Cadet, one from each branch of the main cadet forces, Army Cadet Force, Air Training Corps and Sea Cadet Corps. The cadet is selected by the Lord-Lieutenant. The Lord-Lieutenant's Cadet's are from the county of the Lord-Lieutenant. Created under the Administration of Justice Act (1964), this office merged those of Lord-Lieutenant of the County of London (''cr.'' 1889) and the ancient Lord-Lieutenancy of Middlesex.Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c.42), section 18 : "''For the purposes of the Lieutenancy, Greater London other than the City shall be treated as a county''". The ceremonial county of Greater London does not i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Tapp
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major-General Sir Nigel (Prior Hanson) Tapp Order of the British Empire, KBE Order of the Bath, CB Distinguished Service Order, DSO (1904–1991) was General Officer Commanding East Africa Command of the British Army. Military career Educated at Bedford School, Nigel Tapp was Commissioned officer, commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1924. He served in the Sudan Defence Force from 1932 to 1938. He also served in World War II initially as a General Staff Officer with the British Expeditionary Force (World War II), British Expeditionary Force and then as a General Staff Officer at the War Office. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 7th Field Regiment Royal Artillery in 1942 and was still commanding it during Operation Overlord in June 1944. He then became Commander Royal Artillery for 25th Division in 1945. After the War he became District Commander for Eritrea in 1946 and then deputy director of Land/Air Warfare at the War Office in 1948. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Walsh (British Army Officer)
Major General Michael John Hatley Walsh, (10 June 1927 – 13 October 2015) was a British Army officer. He was the Scout Association's Chief Scout from 1982 to 1988. Education Walsh was born on 10 June 1927 in Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at two independent schools: at Clifton House School in Harrogate, Yorkshire and at Sedbergh School in Cumbria, and was a member of the local Scout Troop. He attained the King's Scout Award with the added distinction of Gold Cords, indicating it as the highest award available in Scouting at the time. Military career Walsh joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a rifleman in 1944 and was commissioned in 1945. He spent the winter of 1945–46 in northern Italy guarding against incursion by Josip Broz Tito's partisans. After instructing at the Small Arms School and the Jungle Warfare School in Malaya, he was seconded to the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment (known as "3 Para") and went with it to Cyprus in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greville Spratt
Sir Greville Douglas Spratt, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, GBE, Territorial Decoration, TD, Justice of the peace, JP, Deputy lieutenant, DL (1 May 1927 – 13 December 2012) was a British underwriter who was the 660th Lord Mayor of London from 1987 to 1988. Biography Spratt was educated at Leighton Park School, Charterhouse School, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served with the Coldstream Guards from 1945 to 1946, before being commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was seconded into the Arab Legion from 1946 to 1948. After leaving the Army, he joined the Infantry Battalion of the Honourable Artillery Company as a private, before being commissioned in the HAC in 1950. He was appointed commanding officer of the HAC in 1962, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was Regimental Colonel from 1966 to 1970 and again in 1978. He was Aide-de-camp, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen from 1973 to 1978. Spratt joined Lloyd's o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nirj Deva
''Thakur Artha'' Niranjan Joseph De Silva Deva Aditya, (born 11 May 1948), known as Nirj Deva, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 1999 to 2019. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons from 1992 to 1997, for the seat of Brentford and Isleworth. Deva was born in Sri Lanka into a politically active family and was raised in Britain. He was the fifth Asian-born person to be elected a Member of the House of Commons, and in 1999 became the second so-born to be elected as a Conservative to the European Parliament which operates via a party list system. In November 2011 Deva became the European Conservatives and Reformists Group's candidate for President of the European Parliament, following three UN-related roles, representing the European Union, in the 2005 to 2006 period. Family background and education Deva was born in Colombo Sri Lanka, to a leading fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Beach
General Sir William Gerald Hugh Beach, (20 May 1923 – 4 September 2019) was a British Army officer who, in retirement, researched and advised on defence policy, arms control and disarmament, with an interest in promoting concerns about ethical issues of peace and war. Early life Beach was educated at Winchester College, Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA 1961) and the University of Edinburgh (MSc 1971). Military career Beach joined the Corps of Royal Engineers in August 1941. He saw active service in France and Belgium in 1944 and in Java in 1946. In Normandy he was ordered to clear a road of mines, but the first vehicle to use the road struck an undetected mine and was destroyed. He cleared the road again and rode on the next vehicle to use the road. In Belgium he was attached to the 11th Hussars. He was injured while reconnoitring a bridge, but insisted on filing a full report before being taken to hospital, enabling the British to capture the bridge. During the 1960s Beach commande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Cutler
Sir Horace Walter Cutler (28 July 1912 – 2 March 1997) was a British Conservative politician who served as leader of the Greater London Council from 1977 to 1981. He was noted for his showmanship and flair for publicity and was, in several ways, a forerunner of Thatcherism. Early life Cutler was born in Stoke Newington, London, into a large but rich family. He went to Harrow County School for Boys and Hereford Cathedral School, later joining his father's building business. He spent World War II in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and after the war became a businessman. Local politics In 1952 he first went into politics when he was elected as a Conservative member of Harrow Borough Council, where he became Leader of the Council in 1961. He was also elected to Middlesex County Council and was its last Leader, in 1963, before it was abolished to make way for the Greater London Council. GLC membership Cutler took one of the Harrow seats on the GLC at its first election and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Bramall
Sir Ernest Ashley Bramall (6 January 1916 – 10 February 1999) was a British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Bexley from 1946 to 1950 and Leader of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) for 11 years. Family and early career Bramall's family were wealthy merchants from Hampshire, but his mother was a Socialism, socialist and did much to convince her son to support the left in politics. He attended Westminster School briefly, before moving to Canford School for the benefit of his health. He went up to Magdalen College, Oxford, in the mid-1930s to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He was elected to chair the Oxford University Labour Club in 1938. At University of Oxford, Oxford he was an active debater at the Oxford Union Society where he often debated with Edward Heath. He was Treasurer of the Union in 1939. On the outbreak of war, Bramall joined the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, into which he was commissioned in 1941. He transferred to the Reconnaiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bowness, Baron Bowness
Peter Spencer Bowness, Baron Bowness, (born 19 May 1943) is a British politician, solicitor, and life peer. Since 1996, he has been a member of the House of Lords. Early life Bowness was born on 19 May 1943. He was educated at Whitgift School, an all-boys independent school in South Croydon, London. He graduated from the University of Law, and began work as a solicitor in 1966. Legal career Bowness is a qualified solicitor and notary public. From 1970 to 2002, he was a partner at Weightman Sadler Solicitors in Purley, London Borough of Croydon. From 2002 to 2011, he was a consultant to Streeter Marshall Solicitors (the successor to the now merged Weightman Sadler Solicitors). Since then, he has not practised as a solicitor or notary public. Political career Councillor Bowness became a councillor and soon rose within Conservative Party ranks, becoming Leader of Croydon Council, London's largest borough. During the 1980s, Bowness was said to have been one of Margaret Thatcher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirby Laing
Sir William "Kirby" Laing (21 July 1916 – 12 April 2009) was a British civil engineer. Career Laing was born in Carlisle in 1916.. He was a member of the Laing Family, famous in the British construction industry for running John Laing plc. He was the son of Sir John Laing and the brother of Sir Maurice Laing. Kirby Laing learnt about the construction industry from his father and would visit the company's construction sites with him during the school holidays. Laing graduated from Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge in 1937 and began work as a graduate engineer for John Laing plc. He was a member of the fifth generation of the Laing family to join the firm. During the Second World War Laing served in the Royal Engineers, receiving his commission as a Second Lieutenant on 2 January 1944. He resigned his commission as a Lieutenant in the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers on 13 July 1955, although he was permitted to retain the honorary title of Lieutenant. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Wicks
Arthur Ernest Wicks (1915–2006) was a Labour politician and the last chairman of the London County Council. A conscientious objector during the Second World War, he was first elected to the Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council in the 1950s, and became chairman of housing, at a time when Shoreditch had one of England's highest concentrations of municipal housing. Elected to the LCC for Shoreditch and Finsbury in 1952, he gave his time to housing and parks. County Hall, London, a Labour stronghold since 1934, was a pioneering model for Labour ideas and plans, including comprehensive education, school music, housing development and the establishment of the South Bank complex. As LCC chairman from 1963 to 1965, Arthur oversaw the transition in 1964 to the new Greater London Council and served on the GLC until 1981. He also owned two shops and a cafe in Islington. His main shop, selling everything from paraffin and groceries to hardware, served as an informal advice surg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Robertson (British Army Officer)
Major General James Alexander Rowland Robertson, (23 March 1910 – 11 February 2004) was a British Army officer who commanded the 17th Gurkha Division. Military career Educated at Epsom College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,Obituary: Major-General Jim Robertson The Telegraph, 17 February 2004 Robertson was commissioned into the in 1930 and transferred into the |
