John d'Henin Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell

John d'Henin Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, GCVO, MC (1 May 1911 - 31 January 1990), was Lord Lieutenant of Surrey from 12 March 1973 until 2 May 1986.[1]

He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was an officer in the Coldstream Guards from 1931 to 1945, and served with his regiment during World War II. He fought with the regiment's 5th Battalion, which formed part of the Guards Armoured Division, in the Battle of Normandy, where he was injured on 18 July 1944.

In the 1960s Hamilton was President of the National Association of Probation Officers.[2]

He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in the 1987 New Year Honours.[3]

References

  1. ↑ ‘HAMILTON OF DALZELL’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 5 Feb 2017
  2. ↑ Hansard, House of Lords, Vol. 302, Col. 1190, 19 June 1969.
  3. ↑ "No. 50764". The London Gazette. 30 December 1986. pp. 1–28.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster		 Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey
1973–1986		 Succeeded by
Richard Eustace Thornton
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Gavin George Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell		 Baron Hamilton of Dalzell
1952–1990		 Succeeded by
James Leslie Hamilton, 4th Baron Hamilton of Dalzell
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