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Martin Graham Clive Amlôt, (born 1947) is a retired

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officer, former High Sheriff of Merseyside and former Deputy Lieutenant of Merseyside.

Military Career and Later Appointments

Amlôt attended the

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, before commissioning into the

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on 15 December 1967. He was promoted to

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on 15 June 1969,

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on 15 December 1973, and

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on 30 September 1980. During his time in the King's Regiment, and then as a

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, Amlôt served in the

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, the

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, and the

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. As a major, he became the second-in-command of 1st Battalion, King's Regiment; before being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 30 June 1990, and taking command of the 5th/8th Battalion, King's Regiment. He finally served as Secretary to the Commanders in Chiefs' Committee (Germany), before retiring from the army on 1 November 1994. Once retired, Amlôt became the Regimental Secretary of the King's Regiment, seeing him run the home headquarters of the regiment. When the regiment amalgamated with two others to become the

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in 2006, he was appointed Regimental Secretary once more of the new regiment, and continued in that capacity until 2011. Amlôt joined Merseyside

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in 1994, as a Colonel and the Commandant of the county. He completed the appointment and left in 1999.

Voluntary Appointments

He was appointed as the High Sheriff of Merseyside for 2012–2013, and served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Merseyside from November 2000 to June 2022. Amlôt also serves as a Patron of Sefton Council for Voluntary Services, the Chairman of the Board of Rushton Futures at the Royal School for the Blind, Liverpool, the 2022-24 President of the

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, the Treasurer of the Arts Society Wirral, and a member of the Foundation of

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. He was the 2020-21 President of the

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, and the President of

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in Merseyside between 2013 and 2023.

Awards

Amlôt was appointed an

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in the

1993 Queen's Birthday Honours The 1993 Queen's Birthday honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's b ...

. In 2008, he was appointed a Serving Brother of the

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, received an Order service medal in 2011, and was appointed an Officer of the Order in 2013.

Personal life

in 1971 he married Jacqueline Pyett of Bridport in Dorset. They had two sons. He was widowed in 1987 and married again. His wife, Daphne Amlôt, (Nee Frost) was born in Southsea, Hampshire.

References

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