Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Christopher Guy Dyke Acland, 6th Baronet, LVO

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, DL

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 (born 24 March 1946) was a British Army

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 officer and member of the British Royal Household

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. Acland was educated at Allhallows School, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

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. He joined the Royal Artillery

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 in 1966 and retired in 1994.

Acland served with the 26th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, in the British Army of the Rhine

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 (BAOR) 1967-1970. He had further regimental duty with the 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

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 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 - 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 1981-1983 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 in the BAOR 1986-1988. Sir Guy then took his first post in the Royal Household

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, as Equerry

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 to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh

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 1988-1990.

He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 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 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 in 1999, and is a Deputy Lieutenant

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 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 (b. 29 May 1973)
• Hugh Antony Waring Dyke Acland (b. 23 April 1976)