Glyn Gilbert

Major-General Glyn Charles Anglim Gilbert CB MC (15 August 1920 – 26 September 2003) was a 20th-century British military officer who saw active service during the Second World War. In 1970, he became the highest ranking Bermudian military officer when he was promoted to the rank of major-general in the British Army.

Early life Gilbert was born into a family with its roots in the 17th century settlement of Bermuda, where the family is based mostly in Paget and Warwick parishes. A Thomas Gilbert of Warwick gifted the land upon which Christ Church in Warwick, the oldest Presbyterian church outside of the British Isles, was built in 1719 (Glyn Charles Anglim Gilbert's parents, however, belonged to the St. Paul's Church (Church of England) in Paget). His father, Major Charles Gray Gosling Gilbert, OBE, MC, was the long-time head of the Colony's education department (1924–1956) (the school of Gilbert Institute, in Paget, opened on 26 May, 1933, is named for him). Charles Gilbert, a Bermuda Rhodes Scholar from 1913, had been studying at Brasenose College, Oxford, in England when the Great War began. He left the university and was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment, before serving on the Western Front in the Machine Gun Corps. Other Bermudian students in Britain similarly left their studies to serve in the British Army, including another Bermudian Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Lennock de Graaf Godet, killed in action while serving in the Royal Flying Corps. During the Second World War, Gilbert was also in charge of cable censorship in Bermuda.

Glyn Gilbert was born in England, where his father worked briefly after leaving the Army following the end of the Great War. Raised in Bermuda, he was sent to Eastbourne College in England. Following this command, he was promoted to brigadier general, in command of the Territorial Army's 44th Parachute Brigade. After attending the Imperial Defence College, Gilbert became commandant of the School of Infantry, Warminister, in 1967.

In retirement, Gilbert continued to live at Heytesbury. A member of the Army and Navy Club, in Who's Who he stated his recreation as "following the sun". His wife died in 2000, and he himself died in 2003, at the age of 83.