Education
Balliol College; Eton College.
Balliol College; Eton College.
Educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, Hartley joined the Royal Air Force in 1938. He served in World World War II as a pilot and then as Assistant Director of Intelligence (Technical). He went on to be Air Officer Commanding Number.
12 Group in 1959, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Operational Requirements) in 1961 and Deputy Chief of the Air Staff in 1963 before being made Controllor of Aircraft in 1967 and retiring in 1970.
The son of noted chemist Harold Brewer Hartley, Christopher Hartley married Anne Sitwell in 1937.