Christopher Airy

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Major General Sir Christopher John Airy, Template:Postnominals (8 March 1934 – 7 April 2025) was a British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding the London District and Major-General commanding the Household Division from 1986 to 1989.

Military career

Educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,[1] Airy was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1954.[2] Airy became personal military assistant to the Secretary of State for War in 1960, deputy assistant adjutant-general and regimental adjutant in 1967 and brigade major of the 4th Guards Brigade in 1971. In 1974 he transferred to the Scots Guards on appointment as commanding officer of the 1st Battalion.[3] Two years later he became Military Assistant to the Master-General of the Ordnance.

In 1979 Airy became commander of the 5th Field Force, and in 1982 assistant chief of staff at United Kingdom Land Forces. Promoted to major general in 1983, he served at the Royal College of Defence Studies,[4] before becoming Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District in 1986.[5] He retired in 1989.[6][7][8]

Airy was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1984,[9] and a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1989.[10]

Personal life and death

In 1959, Airy married Judith Stephenson (deceased on 14 January 2025).[11] The couple had one son and two daughters. He died on 7 April 2025, at the age of 91.[12]

References

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  1. ↑ Burke's Peerage
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  11. ↑ Burke's Peerage, https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2025/01/lady-airy-wife-of-maj-gen-sir.html
  12. ↑ Airy The Telegraph

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Military offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check GOC London District
1986–1989 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Court offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales
1990–1991 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by

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