Lieutenant Colonel
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Sir Christopher Guy Dyke Acland, 6th Baronet (born 24 March 1946) was a
British Army
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officer and member of the
British Royal Household
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.
Career
Acland was educated at
Allhallows School and the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
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, from where he commissioned into the
Royal Artillery
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in 1966. Acland served with the 26th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, in the
British Army of the Rhine
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(
BAOR
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) 1967–1970. He had further regimental duty with the
3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
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The regiment was constituted in 1939 out of existing batteries. Two of ...
in the United Kingdom and
Hong Kong
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1970–1973, and the 22nd Air Defence Regiment Royal Artillery in BAOR and the United Kingdom 1974–1977.
He attended the
Staff College, Camberley
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in 1978 (qualifying as a
staff officer
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-
psc), and was promoted to
major
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the same year. He then served on the staff of
Headquarters
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Eastern District 1979–1980. From 1981 to 1983 he was Commanding Officer of 'Q' (Sanna's Post)
Battery
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, 5th Regiment Royal Artillery, in the BAOR. Sir Guy, now a
baronet
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, was then a staff officer (
SO2) in the Army Staff Duties Directorate of the
Ministry of Defence
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in
London
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(1983–1985).
He returned to regimental duties as second in command of the
1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
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in the BAOR 1986–1988. Sir Guy then took his first post in the
Royal Household, as
Equerry
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to
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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1988–1990. He was promoted to
Lieutenant-Colonel
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in 1990, and was a staff officer (SO1) in the Management Services Organisation 1990–1992. His last army posting before rejoining the Royal Household was as Commanding Officer, Southampton
Officer Training Corps
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1992–1994.
Sir Guy was Equerry to The Queen and Deputy
Master of the Household
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1994–1999.
After his retirement he was part-time Administrator, for the
HSA Charitable Trust from 2001.
Sir Guy succeeded to his
baronet
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cy (as the 6th of the creation of 1890) in 1983. He was made an
MVO in 1990, promoted to
LVO
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in 1999, and is a
Deputy Lieutenant of the
Isle of Wight
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. He has been an Extra Equerry to The Queen since 1999.
Marriage and children
He married Christine Mary Carden Waring, daughter of Dr. John Waring, in 1971. They had two sons:
* Alexander John Dyke Acland (born 29 May 1973)
* Hugh Antony Waring Dyke Acland (born 23 April 1976)
References
ACLAND, Lt-Col Sir (Christopher) Guy (Dyke) ''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, 2014 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
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1946 births
Living people
Guy
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Graduates of the Staff College, Camberley
Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order
Royal Artillery officers
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Deputy Lieutenants of the Isle of Wight
Equerries
People educated at Allhallows College