John Hugh Bevil Acland

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Major-General Sir John Hugh Bevil Acland KCB, CBE, DL (26 November 1928 – 17 November 2006) was a British soldier.

The son of Peter Bevil Edward Acland and Bridget Susan Barnett was educated at Eton College, Berkshire. He was commissioned from Sandhurst into the Scots Guards in 1948. Acland fought in the Malayan Emergency, the Cyprus Campaign and the Kenyan Mau Mau Uprising. Between 1968 and 1971, he was Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards. He fought in the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964 and in the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969. From 1975 and 1978, he was Commander of the Land Forces in Cyprus, from 1978 and 1981 General Officer in Command of the South West District and Commander of the Monitoring Force in Rhodesia from 1979 and 1980.

Having been Equerry to the Duke of Gloucester between 1957 and 1959, Acland was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1978 and as a Knight Commander of Order of the Bath in 1980. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1985 and became Honorary Colonel of the Exeter University Officer's Training Corps one year later. In 1989, he was further made Honorary Colonel of the Royal Devon Yeomanry and of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry. In 1995, he was also Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Devon.

On 12 November 1953, he married Myrtle Christian Euing Crawford, daughter of Brigadier Alistair Wardrop Euing Crawford. They had one son and one daughter.

His younger brother Antony was Head of the Diplomatic Service from 1982 to 1986 and Ambassador to Washington from 1986 to 1991.