Lieutenant Colonel Peter Thomas Clifton, DSO

From FreeBMD - Registration of marriage of Ursula S. Packe in 1934 and FreeBMD - Registration of marriage of Peter T. Clifton in 1934

• April to June 1934: Registration of marriage of Peter T. Clifton and Packe; in Loughborough, Leicestershire (Volume 7a, Page 375)
• April to June 1934: Registration of marriage of Ursula S. Packe and Clifton; in Loughborough, Leicestershire (Volume 7a, Page 375)

From PDF FORMAT: Supplement to the London Gazette, Friday, 3 June 1960

Lord Chamberlain's Office, St. James's Palace, London S.W.1. Friday, 3 June 1960.

The QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the recommendation of the Earl St. Aldwyn, the Captain, to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Thomas Clifton, D.S.O., late Grenadier Guards, to be one of Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, in the room of Major-General Arthur Reginald Chater, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., promoted.

From FreeBMD - Registration of marriage of Peter T. Clifton in 1948 and FreeBMD - Registration of marriage of Patricia M. A. Cobbold in 1948

• April to June 1948: Registration of marriage of Patricia M. A. Cobbold and Clifton; in Chelsea (Volume 5c, Page 588)
• April to June 1948: Registration of marriage of Peter T. Clifton and Cobbold; in Chelsea (Volume 5c, Page 588)

From Biography of Peter Thomas Clifton (1911-1996) - The University of Nottingham

From thepeerage - Lt.-Col. Peter Thomas Clifton

Lt.-Col. Peter Thomas Clifton, Male, born 24 January 1911, died November 1996

Lt.-Col. Peter Thomas Clifton was born on 24 January 1911. He was the son of Lt.-Col. Percy Robert Clifton and Evelyn Mary Amelia Leith. He married, firstly, Ursula Sybil Packe, daughter of Sir Edward Hussey Packe and Hon. Mary Sydney Colebrooke, on 2 June 1934. He married, secondly, Patricia Mary Adela Gibson-Watt, daughter of Major James Miller Gibson-Watt, on 28 April 1948. He died in November 1996 at age 85 at Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. He was appointed Commander, Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.) He was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England. His marriage to Ursula Sybil Packe was annulled in 1936. He fought in the Second World War. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) in 1945. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Grenadier Guards. He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Nottinghamshire between 1952 and 1959. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) in 1954. He was a member of the Gentlemen-at-Arms in 1960. He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Hampshire in 1964. He was Standard Bearer of the Gentlemen-at-Arms between 1979 and 1981. He lived at Dummer House, Dummer, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.

Children of Lt.-Col. Peter Thomas Clifton and Patricia Mary Adela Gibson-Watt