Background
VANNECK, Air Commodore The Peter Beckford Rutgers was born on January 7, 1922. Son of Baron Huntingfield and Margaret Eleanor Crosby.
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Air Commodore The Peter Beckford Rutgers VANNECK
Edit Profileair force officer and Lord Mayor of London
Air Commodore The Peter Beckford Rutgers VANNECK, British air force officer and former Lord Mayor of London. European Parliament, for Cleveland 1979-1984, for Cleveland and Yorkshire North 1984-1989; Board, Ipswich Group Hospitals 1956-1962, Governor Body British Post Graduate Medical Federation, University of London 1963-1971, Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital Board of Governors 1971-1973, City and London Area Health Authority 1973-1977.
Education
Geelong Grammar School, Stowe School, Trinity College, Cambridge and Harvard.
Career
Served in Nelson, King George V, Eskimo, 55th Library Copyright Alliance Flot., Wren, MTB 696. In command 771 Squadron., 807 Squadron. Federal Aviation Administration, resigned 1949; Cambridge University Air Squadron.
1949.
601 (Company of London) Squadron. R.Aux.A.F. 1950-1957. 3619 (Company of Suffolk) Fighter Control Unit 1958-1959, in command 1959-1961.
Number 1 Maritime Headquarters Unit 1961-1963.
Group Captain 1963; Inspector R.Aux.A.F. 1963-1973, Honorary Inspector-General 1974-1983. Honorary Air Cdre. Number 1 (Company Hertford) Maritime Headquarters Unit, 1973-1987.
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen 1963-1973, Gentleman Usher 1967-1979. Conservative.
Membership
European Parliament, for Cleveland 1979-1984, for Cleveland and Yorkshire North 1984-1989. Board, Ipswich Group Hospitals 1956-1962, Governor Body British Post Graduate Medical Federation, University of London 1963-1971, Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital Board of Governors 1971-1973, City and London Area Health Authority 1973-1977.
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Connections
Married 1st Cordelia Errington in 1943 (divorced in 1984). Married 2nd Elizabeth Forbes in 1984.
