John Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim

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John Douglas Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim OBE , DL , FRGS ( July 20, 1927 - January 12, 2019 ) was a British officer and peer .

He was the son of the British Field Marshal and 13th Governor General of Australia , William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim . He was trained at the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College at Dehra Dun in India. In 1944 Slim joined the British Indian Army 6th Gurkha Rifles and was transferred to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1948 . He served in the Special Air Service in 1952 . From 1961 he was a lecturer at Staff College in Camberley and from 1964 at the Joint Services Staff College. In 1972 he left the army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and later became the honorary Colonel promoted. He became Officer of the Order of the British Empire the following year .

When his father died in 1970 he inherited his title as Viscount Slim and thereby became a member of the House of Lords . With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999 , he lost the automatic seat in the House of Lords along with all other Hereditary Peers. However, he was elected as one of the 92 elected Hereditary Peers to remain in the House after the reform. He was a crossbencher .

Slim was chairman of Peek plc from 1976 to 1991 , its vice chairman from 1991 to 1996 and finally its advisor from 1996 to 2003. He was also director of the Trailfinders travel agency and trustee of the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League (RCEL). Since 1971 he has been President of the Burma Star Association and since 2000 President of the SAS Association . He was also the patron of Prospect Burma , a London-based charity that distributes college scholarships to Burmese students. He was first chairman and later vice-president of the Britain – Australia Society . From 1977 to 1996 he was Vice Chairman of the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce . In 1983 Slim became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society . Between 1995 and 1996 he was also a Master of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers . He served as Honorary Chairman of the OSS Society.

Since 1958 he was married to Elisabeth Spinney († 2018). They left two sons, including Mark William Rawdon Slim , who inherited his title in 2019, and a daughter.

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predecessor Office successor
William Slim Viscount Slim
1970-2019 		Mark Slim
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SURNAME Slim, John, 2nd Viscount Slim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Slim, John Douglas, 2nd Viscount Slim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and soldier
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1927
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2019