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David Leakey

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British Army general, parliamentary official

David Leakey
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
In office
1 February 2011 – 13 February 2018
MonarchElizabeth II
Preceded bySir Freddie Viggers
Succeeded bySarah Clarke
Personal details
BornArundell David Leakey
(1952-05-18)18 May 1952 (age 73)
Parent
RelativesNigel Leakey (uncle)
Alma materFitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Military service
Branch/serviceBritish Army
Years of service1971–2010
RankLieutenant General
UnitRoyal Tank Regiment
CommandsEuropean Union Military Staff
20th Armoured Brigade
2nd Royal Tank Regiment
Battles/warsOperation Banner
EUFOR Althea (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
AwardsCompanion of the Order of St Michael and St George[1]
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Commander of the Order of the British Empire[2]
Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service

Lieutenant GeneralArundell David Leakey,CMG, CVO, CBE (born 18 May 1952[3]) is a formerBritish Army officer. He wasDirector General of the European Union Military Staff in theCouncil of the European Union,Brussels. In 2010 he was appointedGentleman Usher of the Black Rod, a role he held until February 2018.[4]

Early life and family

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Main article:Leakey family

Leakey is the son of Major GeneralRea Leakey and nephew ofVictoria Cross recipientNigel Leakey. Leakey was educated atSherborne School.[5] He is also related to the Victoria Cross recipientJoshua Leakey.[6]

Military career

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After attending theRoyal Military Academy Sandhurst, Leakey wascommissioned into theRoyal Tank Regiment as asecond lieutenant (on probation) on 27 February 1971. Hisservice number was 491002.[7] From 4 September 1971[8] to 1 July 1974 he was auniversity cadet[9] while he read law atFitzwilliam College,University of Cambridge.[5][10] His commission was confirmed on 1 July 1974 with seniority from 1 February 1971.[11] He was promoted tolieutenant on 1 July 1974 with seniority from 1 February 1973,[11] and tocaptain on 1 August 1977.[12] He served in the UK,Northern Ireland,Germany,Bosnia and inCanada in armoured vehicles and in tanks (Chieftain andChallenger).[5]

Having attended theStaff College, Camberley, Leakey was promoted tomajor on 30 September 1984.[13] He was appointedChief of Staff at7th Armoured Brigade (Germany),Military Assistant to theChief of the Defence Staff and thenCommanding Officer of the2nd Royal Tank Regiment.[5]

Leakey was promoted tocolonel on 31 December 1993 with seniority from 30 June 1993.[14] He was then posted to theMinistry of Defence as aColonel Military Operations. In that role, he was responsible forOperational planning and policy affectingEastern andWestern Europe. In early 1995, he attended theHigher Command and Staff Course. In late 1995, he was the UK's Military Representative at the peace negotiations to end theBosnian War held in the United States. The successful negotiations resulted in the signing of theDayton Agreement and an end to the three-and-a-half-year-long war.[5]

Leakey was promoted tobrigadier on 31 December 1995 with seniority from 30 June 1995.[15] He was appointed Commander of20th Armoured Brigade in Germany in 1996.[5] With his brigade, he wasposted to theformer Yugoslavia from 21 December 1996 to 20 June 1997.[2] He returned to the Ministry of Defence as Director of Military Operations from July 1997 to December 1999.[16]

In 2000, Leakey attended theRoyal College of Defence Studies. He was Chief of Staff atHeadquarters Northern Ireland[5] from February to December 2001.[16] He was promoted tomajor general on 15 December 2001.[17] From December 2001 to October 2004, he wasDirector General of Army Training and Recruiting.[16] On 6 October 2004, he was appointed Commander ofEuropean Union ForceAlthea,[18] theEuropean Union peacekeeping force, which replaced theNATO-ledSFOR inBosnia and Herzegovina.[5] He was promoted tolieutenant general on 28 February 2007.[19] From 1 March 2007[20] until 2010, he was Director General of theEuropean Union Military Staff inBrussels.[5]

Leakey retired from the military on 22 September 2010.[21]

Later life

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Leakey was appointed asGentleman Usher of the Black Rod in theHouse of Lords from February 2011[22] to December 2017. In early 2020 Leakey argued strongly against formerSpeaker of the House of CommonsJohn Bercow being appointed to theHouse of Lords, accusing him of bullying and explosive behaviour.[23]Shadow Home Secretary andMember of ParliamentDiane Abbott has defended Bercow, stating that as a military man, Leakey was "unlikely to have been bullied by Bercow".[24]

Personal life

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Leakey was chairman of theNational Children's Orchestra, but he resigned in June 2014. He has also been a member of theParliament Choir.

He was appointed a Governor of Sherborne School and Sherborne School Group in 2018 and chairman in July 2020. He is also a trustee of numerous other Charitable and not for profit organisations.

He is an amateur piano player and singer. He is married with two sons. He enjoys classical music, playing squash, tennis, golf, most field sports, and chain sawing.[5]


Leakey family tree
James Leakey
(1775–1865)[i]		Eliza Hubbard Woolmer
(1793–1855)[ii]
James Shirley Leakey
(1824–1871)[citation needed]		Caroline Woolmer Leakey
(1827–1881)[ii]		9 others[ii]
Rev. Arundell Leakey
(1853–1924)		Rev. Harry Leakey
(1868–1940)
Elizabeth Laing
(1873–1925)[iii][iv]		Arundell Gray Arundell Leakey
(1885–1954)[iii][iv]		5 othersHenrietta Wilfrida Avern
(1902–1993)		Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey[iv]
(1903–1972)		Mary Douglas Nicol
(1913–1996)		3 others
Nigel Gray Leakey
(1913–1941)[iii][iv]		Robert Dove Leakey
(1914–2013)		Maj. Gen. Arundell Rea Leakey
(1915–1999)		Agnes Florence Leakey
(1917–2006)[iv]		Colin Louis Avern Leakey
(1933–2018)		Meave Epps
(b. 1942)		Richard Erskine Frere Leakey
(1944–2022)		Margaret CropperJonathan Harry Erskine Leakey
(1940–2021)		Philip Leakey
(b. 1949)
Lt. Gen. Arundell David Leakey
(b. 1952)		Louise Leakey
(b. 1972)		Emmanuel,
Prince de Mérode
(b. 1970)
Notes:
  1. ^O'Donoghue, F. M.; Remington, V. (revised) (2004). "Leakey, James (1775–1865), miniature painter".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16244. (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.)
  2. ^abc"Eliza Hubbard Woolmer, wife of James Leakey".Artsandculture.google.com.Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved6 April 2022.Elizabeth Hubbard Woolmer was born on 20 December 1793. ... On 28 August 1815 she married the artist James Leakey (1775-1865) at St. Sidwell's Church, Exeter (2). They had eleven children. ... Caroline Woolmer Leakey (1827-1881)
  3. ^abc"Serjeant Nigel Gray Leakey | War Casualty Details".cwgc.org. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved8 April 2022.NIGEL GRAY LEAKEY ... Died 19 May 1941 Age 28 years old ... Son of Arundell Gray A. and Elizabeth Leakey, of Kiganjo, Kenya.
  4. ^abcdeLean, Mary (26 January 2007)."Agnes Hofmeyr, Worker for reconciliation in Africa".The Independent.Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved8 April 2022.Agnes Leakey, worker for reconciliation: born Limuru, Kenya 8 May 1917; married 1946 Bremer Hofmeyr (died 1993; one son, and one son deceased); died Johannesburg 1 December 2006. ... Agnes Leakey was born in Limuru, Kenya, in 1917, the youngest child of Gray Leakey, cousin of the anthropologist Louis Leakey, and his first wife, Elizabeth. ... in 1926, when Elizabeth died ... She married a South African colleague, Bremer Hofmeyr, in 1946. ... in ... 1954 ... Mau Mau fighters ... attacked her father's farm, killed her stepmother and abducted her father. ... [he was] buried alive, in a shallow grave on Mount Kenya. ... she lost her eldest brother, Nigel Leakey, in 1941 at Colito, where he won the Victoria Cross. Three years after Bremer's death, in 1993, their elder son, Murray, was killed in a car accident in Johannesburg.

Honours and awards

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Leakey wasColonel Commandant of theRoyal Tank Regiment from 21 August 2006[25] to 30 July 2010[26] and previously Deputy Colonel Commandant since 16 July 1999.[27] He was Honorary Colonel of theDorset Yeomanry Squadron of theRoyal Wessex Yeomanry until September 2024,[28] Honorary Colonel of the Dorset Army Cadet Force until 1 July 2025,[29] as well as Colonel of Cadet Force Music.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)24 March 2006, "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the former Yugoslavia during the period 1st April to 30th September 2005".[30]
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)2018 New Year Honours
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)5 December 1997, "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in former Yugoslavia during the period 21st December 1996 to 20th June 1997".[2]
United Nations Medal for UNFICYPUnited Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
NATO Former Republic of Yugoslavia MedalWith clasp 'Former Yugoslavia '
General Service MedalWith oak leaves forQueen's Commendation for Valuable Service awarded on 19 April 2002, "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Northern Ireland during period 1st April 2001 to 30th September 2001".[31]
Western European Union Mission Service MedalWith "ALTHEA"Clasp
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal2002
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal2012

References

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  3. ^"Birthday's today".The Telegraph. 18 May 2011. Archived fromthe original on 19 May 2011. Retrieved16 May 2014.Lt Gen David Leakey, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, 59
  4. ^"New appointment as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod".royal.gov.uk. Archived fromthe original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved21 December 2010.
  5. ^abcdefghij"LIEUTENANT GENERAL A D LEAKEY CMG CBE"(PDF). European Parliament.Archived(PDF) from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved26 July 2012.
  6. ^Farmer, Ben (26 February 2015)."Heroism runs in the family for VC Para".The Daily Telegraph.Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved26 February 2015.
  7. ^"No. 45331".The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 March 1971. p. 2938.
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  10. ^"Fitzwilliam College Alumni News". Fitzwilliam College. 2011. Archived fromthe original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved1 March 2011.
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  15. ^"No. 54265".The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1995. p. 61.
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  20. ^"Press Briefing for Handover Ceremony"(PDF). COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. 23 February 2007.Archived(PDF) from the original on 24 April 2014. Retrieved26 July 2012.
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  22. ^"New Black Rod starts".Parliament. 2 February 2011. Archived fromthe original on 30 January 2019.
  23. ^Procter, Kate."Giving Bercow Peerage would be scandal, says former Black Rod".The Guardian.Archived from the original on 11 March 2020. Retrieved8 March 2020.
  24. ^Giordano, Chiara."Diane Abbott criticised after suggesting former military commander could not have been Bercow bullying victim".The Independent. No. 5 Feb 2020.Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved8 March 2020.
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  28. ^"No. 64546".The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 October 2024. p. 20854.
  29. ^"No. 64830".The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 August 2025. p. 16631.
  30. ^"No. 57936".The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 March 2006. p. 4194.
  31. ^"No. 56541".The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 April 2002. p. 4810.

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