Desmond Langley

Major-General Sir Henry Desmond Allen Langley, (16 May 1930 – 14 February 2008) was a senior British Army officer who served as Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District from 1979 to 1983. He later served as the 132nd Governor of Bermuda from 1988 to 1992.

Military career Remembrance Day parade in Hamilton, Bermuda, 1990. Langley, as governor, inspects war veterans and is speaking with former second-in-command of the Royal Bermuda Regiment Major Bob Burns.

Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Langley was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1949. He was posted to Egypt and then to Libya. His final appointment was as commander of British Forces Cyprus and Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas in 1983, before retiring in 1988.

Family In 1950 Langley married Felicity Oliphant; the couple had a son and a daughter.