Christopher John Beckett, 4th Baron Grimthorpe Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Doctor of Laws.
Background
Christopher John Beckett was born 16 September 1915, eldest son of Ralph William Ernest Beckett, 3rd Baron Grimthorpe, Territorial Decoration, (1891-1963), a partner in the banking firm of Beckett and Company, of Leeds, Yorkshire, by his first wife, Mary Alice, daughter of Colonel Mervyn Archdale, 12th Lancers and Mary de Bathe, daughter of Sir Henry de Bathe, 4th Baronet. In 17 February 1954, he married Lady Elizabeth Lumley, daughter of the Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough, of Lumley Castle, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen.
Education
Christopher Beckett was educated at Eton.
Career
He was a soldier, company director, landowner and peer of the turf. Lord Grimthorpe, of Westow Hall, near York, had a distinguished military career, retiring from the Army in 1968 as a Brigadier. He was deputy commander of Malta and Libya from 1964-1967 and served as an Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
He was Colonel Commanding 9th Queen"s Royal Lancers, 1955-1958, Colonel 9th/12th Lancers (PWO) from 1973, Brigadier Royal Armoured Corps Western Command, 1961-1964, and served as a Deputy Lieutenant for North Yorkshire from 1969.
