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Brigadier Peter Bevil Edward Acland, OBE, MC, TD, DL, JP, OStJ (9 July 1902 – 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.^[20] Having been already Deputy Lieutenant from 1948,^[17] Acland served as Vice Lord Lieutenant of Devon from 1962 until 1978.^[18]

Family

On 7 July 1927, he married Bridget Susan Barnett, daughter of Reverend Herbert Barnett, and had by her two sons.^[19] The older John was a major-general in the British Army, while the younger Antony was a diplomat.^[20]

References

1. ^{{cite book | last = Fox-Davies | first = Arthur Charles | title = Armorial Families | location = London | publisher = Hurst & Blackett | date = 1929 | pages = 6 | volume = vol. I }}
2. ^¹²{{cite book | title = Who is Who 1963 | publisher = Adam & Charles Black Ltd. | location = London | date = 1963 | pages = 12 }}
3. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 33838 |page=4110 | date = 24 June 1932 }}
4. ^¹{{cite book | last = Bell | first = Gawain | title = Shadows on the Sand: The Memoirs of Sir Gawain Bell | publisher = C. Hurst & Co. | ISBN = 0-905838-92-0 | date = 1983 | pages = 48 }}
5. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 34312 |page=5157 | date = 7 August 1936 }}
6. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 35269 | supp = y |page=5207 | date = 9 September 1941 }}
7. ^{{cite book | last = Henige | first = David P. | title = Colonial Governors from the Fifteenth Century to the Present | publisher = University of Wisconsin Press | date = 1970 | pages = 198–201 }}
8. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 37598 | supp = y |page=2769 | date = 4 June 1946 }}
9. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 38654 | supp = y |page=6328 | date = 1 July 1949 }}
10. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 38089 | supp = y |page=4693 | date = 3 October 1947 }}
11. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 39623 | supp = y |page=4373 | date =12 September 1952 }}
12. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 40314 | supp = y |page=6191 | date = 29 October 1954 }}
13. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 42359 | supp = y |page=3849 | date = 19 May 1961 }}
14. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 39631 | supp = y |page=4536 | date = 26 September 1952 }}
15. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 44335 | supp = y |page=6328 | date = 2 June 1967 }}
16. ^{{cite web | url = http://eric.exeter.ac.uk/exeter/bitstream/10036/29393/2/pugsley.pdf | format = PDF | title = University of Exeter - High Sheriffs of Devon since 1832 | accessdate =14 August 2009 }}
17. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 38471 |page=6304 | date = 3 December 1948 }}
18. ^{{cite news | title = Will - Peter Bevil Edward Acland | newspaper = The Independent | date = 27 March 1993 | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/wills-1500182.html | accessdate =14 August 2009 }}
19. ^¹{{cite web | url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p3165.htm#i31650| title= ThePeerage - Peter Bevil Edward Acland | accessdate=11 December 2006}}
20. ^{{cite news | title = Obituary - John Hugh Bevil Acland | newspaper = The Telegraph | date = 5 December 2006 | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1536004/Major-General-Sir-John-Acland.html | accessdate =14 August 2009 }}