Sanford John Palairet Scobell

Major-General Sir Sanford John Palairet Scobell, (26 September 1879 – 2 March 1955) was a senior officer in the British Army.

Early life Sanford John Palairet Scobell was born on 26 September 1879, the son of Sanford George Treweeke Scobell, of Down House in Redmarley and of Osborne House, The Park, Cheltenham, by his wife Edith, fourth daughter of Septimus Henry Palairet, of the Grange in Bradford-upon-Avon, who was of Huguenot descent. His father was a major in the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars and the regiment's Honorary Lieutenant Colonel in 1896;

In 1910, Scobell married Cecily Maude, daughter of Charles C. Hopkinson, of Belgrave Lodge in Cheltenham; they had two daughters and two sons.

Military career Following school at Winchester College, Scobell studied at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 29 August the following year and served in the Somaliland campaign in 1904. On 24 January 1906, he became a captain and served as an adjutant between November 1907 and November 1910. and brevet lieutenant colonel on New Year's Day 1918. He was promoted to major general on 16 June 1934, but relinquished his post and went on the half-pay list in September of that year. He returned to the full pay list as a district commander in India on 25 November 1935. He retired in 1939, but was recalled that October with the outbreak of the Second World War. He commanded troops in Malta between 1939 and 1942, but went on the retired list again in 1942. He took up the ceremonial position of Lieutenant of the Tower of London, which he vacated in 1945.

Scobell was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1916 and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1919, a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1935, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1942. He died on 2 March 1955, at a nursing home in Camberley, Surrey.