Barney White-Spunner

Lieutenant General Sir Barnabas William Benjamin White-Spunner (born 1957) is a retired British Army officer, who was subsequently executive chairman of the Countryside Alliance until 2016. He is an author, a director of Burstock Ltd. and was appointed chairman of the advisory board of UK Fisheries Ltd in October 2018.

Military career Educated at Eton College and the University of St Andrews, Barney White-Spunner was commissioned into the Blues and Royals in 1979. He was appointed Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry Regiment in 1996 and in that capacity was deployed to Bosnia. and became Deputy Director of Defence Policy in the Ministry of Defence during the Strategic Defence and Security Review and in 2001 he took charge of Operation Essential Harvest, which was aimed at disarming Albanian insurgents in Macedonia. and in 2007 he was appointed General Officer Commanding the 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division. In February 2008, he deployed with elements of 3rd (UK) Mechanised Division to Iraq where those elements formed HQ Multinational Division (South East).

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002 and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2011 Birthday Honours.

On 7 January 2010, White-Spunner gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry regarding the Battle of Basra.

He retired from the British Army in December 2011

He retired from The Countryside Alliance in 2016. He subsequently became a director of Burstock Ltd. He was appointed chairman of the advisory board of UK Fisheries in October 2018.

He serves as Trustee of The HALO Trust, the worlds largest humanitarian organization focused on clearing land mines and other debris of war.

Authorship White-Spunner first wrote articles for The Field magazine in 1992. Publications (chronological order): co-authored with British Field Sports Society. co-authored with Simon Everett — Contains extracts from past editions of Baily's hunting directory.