Major-General

Major-General (United Kingdom)

Major general is a senior rank in the British Army. Since 1996 the highest position within the Royal Marines is the Commandant General Royal Marines who holds the rank of major general...

 Anthony Peter Grant Peterkin CB

Order of the Bath

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 OBE

Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

 (born 6 July 1947) was the British House of Commons' Serjeant at Arms between 2004 and 2007.

Military career

Educated at Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest Roman Catholic co-educational boarding independent school in the United Kingdom. It opened in 1802, as a boys' school, and is run by the Benedictine monks and lay staff of Ampleforth Abbey...

 before going on to Sandhurst and then Hatfield College, Durham University

Durham University

The University of Durham, commonly known as Durham University, is a university in Durham, England. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...

, Grant Peterkin was commissioned into the Queen's Own Highlanders in 1967. He was appointed Commander

Commander

Commander is a naval rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. Commander is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the armed forces, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Commander as a naval...

 24th Airmobile Brigade in 1993 and then became Deputy Military Secretary in 1996. In 1999 he went on a mission, arranged by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

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, to Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

 and then later that year he was appointed the senior Army representative at the Royal College of Defence Studies

Royal College of Defence Studies

The Royal College of Defence Studies is an internationally-renowned institution and component of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom...

. In October 1999 he became General Officer Commanding

General Officer Commanding

General Officer Commanding is the usual title given in the armies of Commonwealth nations to a general officer who holds a command appointment. Thus, a general might be the GOC II Corps or GOC 7th Armoured Division...

 5th Division. He became Military Secretary in 2000 before retiring in 2004.

He was appointed Serjeant at Arms in 2004 but then sacked in 2007 after suggestions of a falling out with Michael Martin

Michael Martin (politician)

Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, PC is a British politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Springburn from 1979 to 2005, and then for Glasgow North East until 2009...

, the Speaker of the House of Commons.

He is now Chairman of Global Vetting.