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Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, (born 17 November 1938) is a retired senior officer of the

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who served as

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from 1994 to 1997 and Chief of the Defence Staff from 1997 until his retirement in 2001. Guthrie's military career saw service with the

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and the

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; he was closely involved in military operations in

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and provided advice to the British Government during the

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and the

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Early life

Born in

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into a Scottish landed family, Guthrie was the elder son of Major Ronald Guthrie and Nina ''née'' Llewelyn.'' Who's Who 2010'',

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, 2010, He was educated at

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and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. As an Old Harrovian, and due to his seniority in the

, Harrow School's

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contingent, the Harrow Rifle Corps, chose to name an annual inter-CCF

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in Guthrie's honour. The Guthrie Cup is a

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patrol competition, run for school CCFs in London District, supported by adult volunteers and cadets from the Harrow Rifle Corps and local

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detachments.

Army career

Guthrie was commissioned into the

on 25 July 1959. He was promoted to

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on 1 June 1961 and

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on 25 July 1965. In 1966 he became a troop commander with 22

Regiment serving in

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, the

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and

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and then in 1968 he became a squadron commander with 22 Special Air Service Regiment serving in the Persian Gulf and the United Kingdom. He returned to the Welsh Guards in Münster in 1970 and, following his promotion to

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on 31 December 1970, he was given command of a mechanised infantry company in the 1st Battalion. He became Military Assistant to the Chief of the General Staff in 1973 and, following a year as Second in Command of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards in

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and

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and having been promoted to

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on 31 December 1975, he became

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for the

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in 1976. Guthrie was appointed a

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(MVO ''fourth class'') in the

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; on 31 December 1984 this rank was reclassified as Lieutenant (LVO). Guthrie was appointed

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of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards in 1977 in which role he was deployed to Berlin. Promoted to

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on 31 December 1979, he undertook a tour of duty in

in Spring 1980 for which he was appointed an

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. In 1980 he was also briefly Commander of British Forces in the

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. He then spent two years as Colonel on the General Staff for Military Operations at the

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. Promoted to

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on 31 December 1981, he became Brigade Commander of 4th Armoured Brigade in 1982. In 1984 he was made Chief of Staff for 1st British Corps in Bielefeld. Following his appointment as General Officer Commanding (GOC) North East District and Commander 2nd Infantry Division based in

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on 18 January 1986, he was given the substantive rank of

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on 31 March 1986. On 24 November 1987, Guthrie became Assistant Chief of the General Staff at the

. On 2 October 1989 he was promoted to

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and appointed GOC 1st British Corps, and, having been appointed a

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in the

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, he relinquished his command on 2 December 1991. Guthrie was appointed Commander of

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and

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on 7 January 1992 and, following promotion to ( full)

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on 14 February 1992, became ADC to the Queen on 13 July 1993. He then became

(CGS) on 15 March 1994, being advanced to a

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in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1994. As CGS, he was responsible for providing strategic military advice to the British Government on the deployment of troops for the

. He went on to become Chief of the Defence Staff on 2 April 1997. In that position, he advised the British Government on the conduct of the

. He also warned against a British invasion of

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to undertake

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against

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, saying "Hold hard, you'll make it worse." Guthrie retired from the British Army in 2001. Trooping the Colour, senior offices

Guthrie was appointed Colonel Commandant of the Intelligence Corps on 1 March 1986 and Colonel Commandant of the

in 2000. For twenty years he served as Colonel of the Life Guards and Gold Stick-in-Waiting to The Queen, from 1 January 1999 to 7 June 2019.

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, 7 June 2019.

Post-career activities

After retiring from the British Army, he was created a

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as Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, of Craigiebank in the

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, in June 2001. Lord Guthrie sat as a

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in the

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. He was one of several retired Chiefs of Defence Staff who spoke out in the House of Lords about the risk to servicemen facing liability for their actions before the

International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals ...

, particularly with respect to the

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criticised Guthrie for an alleged lack of understanding of

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. Monbiot based his argument on Guthrie's September 2002 statement for an invasion of Iraq and subsequent comments, in which he appeared to support launching "surprise wars", something forbidden by the

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Charter. Guthrie disagreed publicly with

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in 2008 over military funding. In 2007 Guthrie co-authored a book on ethics in modern warfare with Sir Michael Quinlan, formerly Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence. Guthrie was promoted to the honorary rank of

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in June 2012. Guthrie has served as a non-executive director of

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, Rivada Networks, Ashley Gardens Block 2 Ltd, Colt Defense LLC and Sciens Capital; he has served as a director of N M Rothschild & Sons, Gulf Keystone, and Petropavlovsk PLC; he has served as a non-executive chairman of Siboney Ltd.; he has been a shareholder of

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and the global strategic intelligence firm Arcanum, which is a subsidiary of Magellen Investment Holdings. He is also a member of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009. He is president of several charities, including Action Medical Research, the Army Benevolent Fund, Soldier On!, and the Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association. Until 2019, he was also the president of London Youth (Federation of London Youth Clubs). He is a Deputy Lieutenant for

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. Guthrie was one of several contributors to a 2013 book on public sector management. A Roman Catholic convert, Guthrie became a

Knight of Malta The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta ( it, Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme, di Rodi e di Malta; ...

and is a Patron of the Catholic homeless charities Cardinal Hume Centre and Caritas Anchor House. He became Chancellor of

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in July 2013. In August 2014, Lord Guthrie was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''

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'' opposing

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in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. He initially supported the continuance of the United Kingdom's presence in the

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in the 2016 referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union, but suddenly switched to an advocacy of withdrawing from it less than a week before the vote was held, issuing a public warning of the ambitions inherent in the E.U. for the creation of a new "European Army", which he stated "would be a disaster". He is on the advisory board of

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an organization with the stated aim of supporting " Her Majesty's Government in the task of restoring full sovereign control to all aspects of the defence of the Realm " following the EU referendum. Since 1 August 2017 Lord Guthrie has been the Senior Advisor to Ron Wahid, Chairman of Arcanum, a subsidiary of Magellan Investment Holdings. Established 23 March 2015, Magellan Investment Holdings is a holding company with investments in natural resources, energy, real estate, fine arts, aerospace and defense and technology. Magellan is the parent company of two subsidiaries: Arcanum, a global intelligence firm, and RJI Capital, a merchant banking and strategic advisory company. On 9 June 2018 it was reported that, at the annual

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event, Lord Guthrie fell from his horse and had been admitted to hospital. On 8 January 2019, in an extraordinary intervention in the political sphere by figures from the military and intelligence services quarter, Guthrie sent a letter, co-signed by Sir Richard Dearlove, to Conservative Party Parliamentary Constituency Association Chairs, stating that the passage through the

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of Prime Minister

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of the United Kingdom from the European Union contained decisions which fundamentally undermined the integrity of the Defence of the Realm, and requested they take measures to discourage their parliamentary representatives from voting for it imminently in the Commons. The letter as an alternative advocated the case upon national security grounds that the United Kingdom should fully withdraw from the European Union without an Intergovernmental relationship between the two persisting after the process. On relinquishing his appointment as Colonel of The Life Guards and Gold Stick-in-Waiting, The Queen appointed Lord Guthrie a

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on 7 June 2019. On 1 December 2020, he retired from the House of Lords. His interests include tennis, opera and travel.

Family

A scion of the ancient Scottish landowning family, he married, on 11 September 1971, Catherine Worrall, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Claude Worrall, Coldstream Guards. The couple have two sons. She died from heart failure on 8 October 2022, at the age of 81. Guthrie's younger brother is James Guthrie QC.

Arms

Lord Guthrie matriculated his family armorial bearings at the Lyon Office in 1999 (and in 2001 was granted

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for life).

Honours

Lord Guthrie's honours and decorations include:

References

External links

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