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词条 James Weatherall
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  1. Naval career

  2. Family

  3. References

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|name= Sir James Weatherall
|birth_name=James Lamb Weatherall
|birth_date= {{birth date|df=yes|1936|02|29}}
|death_date= {{death date and age|df=yes|2018|03|18|1936|02|29}}
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|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom
|serviceyears= 1954–1991
|rank= Vice-Admiral
|branch= Royal Navy
|commands=HMS Andromeda
HMS Ark Royal
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|battles= Falklands War
|awards= Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Vice-Admiral Sir James Lamb Weatherall {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCVO|KBE}} (28 February 1936 – 18 March 2018) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps from 1992 to 2001.

Naval career

Educated at Gordonstoun School and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Weatherall joined the Royal Navy in 1954.[1] He was given command of the frigate HMS Andromeda in 1982, serving with her in the Falklands War, and took command of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in 1985.[1] He joined the staff of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe in 1987 and then became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in 1989 before retiring in 1991.[1]

In retirement he became Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps[1] and a Trustee of the UK arm of the World Wide Fund for Nature.[2] Weatherall also served as Warden of Box Hill School a Public School in Mickleham near Dorking in Surrey, England [3]

Family

In 1962 he married Hon. Jean Stewart Macpherson, daughter of the first and last Baron Drumalbyn; they have two sons and three daughters.[4] He died on 18 March 2018.[5][6]

References

1. ^Debrett's People of Today 1994
2. ^World Wide Fund for Nature UK Trustees {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928041455/http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/trustee_biographies.pdf |date=28 September 2011 }}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/boxhillschool7/docs/out_of_the_box_-_newsletter_for_oldl|title=Old Boxhillians|date=1 November 2016|publisher=}}
4. ^{{cite book |last= Mosley |first= Charles|date= 2003|title= Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage, 107th Edition |url= |location= Crans, Switzerland |publisher= Burke’s Peerage |page= 3773|isbn= |author-link= }}
5. ^The Telegraph death announcement, 23 March 2018
6. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/03/28/vice-admiral-sir-james-weatherall-obituary/ The Telegraph obituary], 28 March 2018.
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7 : 1936 births|2018 deaths|People educated at Gordonstoun|Marshals of the Diplomatic Corps|Royal Navy admirals|Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire|Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

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