Cecil Blacker

General Sir Cecil Hugh Blacker, (4 June 1916 – 18 October 2002) was a senior British Army officer and a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.

Military career Educated at Wellington College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Cecil Blacker was commissioned into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in January 1936.

He was adjutant of the regiment during the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940, in the opening months of the Second World War. He later transferred to the 23rd Hussars which then formed part of the 11th Armoured Division.

He was ADC General to the Queen from 1974 to 1976.

Blacker was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1967, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1969 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1975. He was also appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1960.

He lived in Hook Norton near Banbury in Oxfordshire.

Showjumping Blacker was an Amateur Steeplechaser and International Showjumper. He rode in the 1948 Grand National. He rode Pointsman to win the Grand Military Gold Cup at Cheltenham in 1954. He represented Great Britain in Showjumping from 1959 to 1961. He was President both of the British Showjumping Association from 1976 to 1980 and of the British Equestrian Federation from 1980 to 1984. He was a member of the Horse Race Betting Levy Board from 1980 to 1983.

Family In 1947 he married Felicity Mary Rew and together they went on to have two sons, writer Terence Blacker and sculptor and former jockey Philip Blacker.