James Bernard Vivian Orr CVO (19 November 1917 – 14 June 2008) was a police officer and

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to the

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from 1957 to 1970. Orr was educated at

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, and

Gordonstoun School Gordonstoun School is a co-educational independent school for boarding and day pupils in Moray, Scotland. It is named after the estate owned by Sir Robert Gordon in the 17th century; the school now uses this estate as its campus. It is located ...

, and the

Royal Military College, Sandhurst The Royal Military College (RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, but moved in October 1812 to Sandhurst, Berkshire, was a British Army military academy for training infantry a ...

. He joined the

British South Africa Police The British South Africa Police (BSAP) was, for most of its existence, the police force of Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe in 1980). It was formed as a paramilitary force of mounted infantrymen in 1889 by Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company, from ...

in 1939, and remained until 1946. From 1941 to 1949, he was attached to the Ethiopia and Eritrea occupied Enemy Territory Administration Police Forces. In 1954–1957, he was a member of the

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Police. Orr joined the Household of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1957. He retired in May 1970. From 1970 he was an Extra

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to the Duke of Edinburgh, and he subsequently worked as Secretary of the Medical Commission on Accident Prevention. He was unmarried. Orr was appointed a

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(MVO) in 1962, and was promoted to Commander (CVO) in the 1968 Birthday Honours.United Kingdom list:

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1917 births 2008 deaths People educated at Gordonstoun Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order British South Africa Police officers British colonial police officers People educated at Harrow School Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Kenyan police officers Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{UK-law-enforcement-bio-stub