James Weatherall
{{Short description|Royal Navy officer (1936-2018)}}
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|name= James Weatherall
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|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}}[http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/222843/weatherall The Telegraph death announcement], 23 March 2018
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|serviceyears= 1954–1991
|rank= Vice-Admiral
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|battles= Falklands War
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Sir James Lamb Weatherall {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCVO|KBE}} (28 February 1936 – 18 March 2018) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic from 1989 to 1991 and then 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.Debrett's People of Today 1994 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. 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.
In retirement he became Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps and a Trustee of the UK arm of the World Wide Fund for Nature.{{cite web |url=http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/trustee_biographies.pdf |title=World Wide Fund for Nature UK Trustees |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928041455/http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/trustee_biographies.pdf |archive-date=28 September 2011}} Sir James also served as Warden of Box Hill School, a public school in Mickleham, near Dorking in Surrey, England until his death.{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/boxhillschool7/docs/out_of_the_box_-_newsletter_for_oldl|title=Old Boxhillians|date=1 November 2016}}
Weatherall was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1989 Birthday Honours{{London Gazette |issue=51772 |supp=y |page=4 |date=16 June 1989}} and appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2001 New Year Honours.{{London Gazette |issue=56070 |supp=y |page=3 |date=30 December 2000}}
Family
In 1962 Weatherall married Hon. Jean Stewart Macpherson, daughter of Niall Macpherson, 1st Baron Drumalbyn; they had two sons and three daughters.{{cite book |last= Mosley |first= Charles|date= 2003|title= Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 107th Edition |location= Crans, Switzerland |publisher= Burke's Peerage |page= 3773}} She died on 15 December 2021.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Births, Marriages and Deaths |date=24 December 2021 |page=53 |issue=73663 |column=5}}
References
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External links
- [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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{{succession box| title=Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic| before=Sir Richard Thomas| after=Sir Peter Woodhead | years=1989–1991}}
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{{succession box| title=Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps| before=Sir John Richards| after=Sir Anthony Figgis | years=1992–2001}}
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Category:People educated at Gordonstoun
Category:Royal Navy vice admirals
Category:Marshals of the Diplomatic Corps
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire