Peter Acland
Brigadier Peter Bevil Edward Acland OBE MC TD JP DL OStJ (9 July 1902 – 9 January 1993) was a British soldier.
Background
He was the younger son of Alfred Dyke Acland and his wife Beatrice, daughter of William Henry Smith and his wife Emily Danvers Smith, 1st Viscountess Hambleden.[1] Acland was educated at Eton College and subsequently Christ Church, Oxford.[2] In 1932, he was invested an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.[3]
Career
Acland joined the Sudan Political Service in 1924[4] and was decorated with the Order of the Nile in 1936.[5] During the Second World War, he served in the Sudan Defence Force,[4] was wounded and honoured with a Military Cross in 1941.[6] He was stationed in Abyssinia and fought in the Western Desert.[2] Acland was then transferred to the Aegean Islands, where he was wounded and mentioned in despatches, receiving the Greek War Cross.[2]
After the war, he was chief administrator first of the Dodecanese, then of the Cyrenaica until 1946,[7] for which he was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the King's Birthday Honours.[8] Three years later, he received the Territorial Decoration.[9] Acland was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1947,[10] commanding the 296 Field Regiment, Royal Devon Yeomanry the next four years until 1951, when he was granted the rank of honorary brigadier.[11] He became colonel in 1954[12] and retired from active service in 1961.[13]
In 1952, Acland was appointed honorary colonel of a Territorial Army Unit[14] and subsequently in 1967 of The Devonshire Territorials until the following year.[15] He was nominated High Sheriff of Devon in 1961,[16] representing the county also as Justice of the Peace.[17] Having been already Deputy Lieutenant from 1948,[18] Acland served as Vice Lord Lieutenant of Devon from 1962 until 1978.[19]
Family
On 7 July 1927, he married Bridget Susan Barnett, daughter of Reverend Herbert Barnett, and had by her two sons.[17] The older John was a major-general in the British Army, while the younger Antony was a diplomat.[20]
References
- Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 6.
- Who is Who 1963. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1963. p. 12.
- "No. 33838". The London Gazette. 24 June 1932. p. 4110.
- Bell, Gawain (1983). Shadows on the Sand: The Memoirs of Sir Gawain Bell. C. Hurst & Co. p. 48. ISBN 0-905838-92-0.
- "No. 34312". The London Gazette. 7 August 1936. p. 5157.
- "No. 35269". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 September 1941. p. 5207.
- Henige, David P. (1970). Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 198–201.
- "No. 37598". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1946. p. 2769.
- "No. 38654". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 July 1949. p. 6328.
- "No. 38089". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 October 1947. p. 4693.
- "No. 39623". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 September 1952. p. 4373.
- "No. 40314". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 October 1954. p. 6191.
- "No. 42359". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 May 1961. p. 3849.
- "No. 39631". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 September 1952. p. 4536.
- "No. 44335". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1967. p. 6328.
- Pugsley, David. "University of Exeter - High Sheriffs of Devon since 1832" (PDF). Retrieved 14 August 2009.
- "ThePeerage - Peter Bevil Edward Acland". Retrieved 11 December 2006.
- "No. 38471". The London Gazette. 3 December 1948. p. 6304.
- "Will - Peter Bevil Edward Acland". The Independent. 27 March 1993. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
- "Obituary - John Hugh Bevil Acland". The Telegraph. 5 December 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
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New regiment | Honorary Colonel of The Devonshire Territorials 1967 – 1968 |
Succeeded by The Lord Clifford of Cudleigh |
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