David Ramsbotham, Baron Ramsbotham

David Ramsbotham, Baron Ramsbotham, 2019

David John Ramsbotham, Baron Ramsbotham GCB CBE (* 6. November 1934 ) is a retired British general of the British Army and politicians , who since 2005 Peer Life Member of the House of Lords is.

Life

Officer and staff officer

Ramsbotham is the son of John Ramsbotham , an Anglican clergyman who was Bishop of Jarrow and later Bishop of Wakefield , and began his military career with the Royal Artillery , where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1953 . After a subsequent study of historical sciences at Corpus Christi College of the University of Cambridge he joined on 21 February 1958 as a first lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade and was there on January 31, 1961 Captain transported. In the following years he served, among others, in Southeast Asia and took from 1963 to 1966, among others, the Konfrontasi mentioned armed conflict between Indonesia and Malaysia in part and was due to his military achievements in the war report mentions ( Mentioned in Despatches ).

After Ramsbotham was promoted to major on December 31, 1967 , he served as Military Assistant to General Michael Carver , Chief of the General Staff of the British Army, between June 1970 and June 1973 , and was eventually promoted to that role on June 30, 1971 Promoted to lieutenant colonel. During this time, Operation Banner fell in the wake of the Northern Ireland conflict , and from 1974 to 1976 he was commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Green Jackets deployed there . Because of his military service there, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1974. On June 30, 1976 he was promoted to colonel .

Promotion to general

After his promotion to Brigadier General on June 30, 1978, Ramsbotham was appointed commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade, also stationed in Northern Ireland, and was appointed commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1980. After graduating from the Royal College of Defense Studies in 1981 , he served as director of the British Army's public relations department between 1982 and 1984, and after his promotion to major general from 1984 to March 1987, he was General Officer Commanding of the 3rd Army Infantry division and successor to Major General Anthony Walker .

April 15, 1987 Ramsbotham was, at the same time Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath was and from then the name suffix led "Sir," the lieutenant general promoted and, succeeding Lieutenant General John Akehurst commander of the field army ( Commander UK Field Army ). He held this post until his replacement by Lieutenant General Michael Wilkes on December 3, 1990. His own successor as commander of the 3rd Infantry Division was Edward Jones . Between 1987 and 1990 Ramsbotham also acted as General Inspector of the Territorial Army .

On December 3, 1990 he became aide-de-camp of Queen Elizabeth II and also held this office until he left the army in 1993. Shortly afterwards, on December 27, 1990, he was promoted to general and appointed adjutant general of the Army ( Adjutant-General to the Forces ) to succeed General Robert Pascoe . In this capacity General Ramsbotham was responsible for the development of personnel policy and support for the army until his retirement on July 13, 1993 and his subsequent replacement by General Michael Wilkes. For his services he was finally in 1993 with the Grand Cross ( Knight Grand Cross awarded the Order of the Bath).

House of Lords

Sir David Ramsbotham, the Royal between 1995 and 2001. Chief Inspector of Prisons of England and Wales ( Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons ) had belonged between 1996 and 2002 and the advisory board of the think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies at (IISS). He also received an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law (Hon. DCL) in 1999 , a member of the Chartered Institute of Management and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the City and Guilds of London Institute . He also became an Honorary Bencher of the Gray's Inn Bar Association and Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge in 2001 .

By a letters patent dated May 17, 2005, Ramsbotham was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Ramsbotham , of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . Shortly thereafter took place on 23 May 2005 on its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he belongs to the group of so-called crossbenchers .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 27, 2012)
• David Ramsbotham at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 27, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 27, 2012)