Lieutenant-General Sir Peter Royson Duffell (born 19 June 1939) was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong.
Military career Educated at Dulwich College, Duffell was commissioned into the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in 1960.Foyle Foundation He served with his Regiment in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency and in Borneo during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation as well as in Northern Ireland. He was appointed Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1989 and then became Inspector-General Doctrine and Training in 1992.Birthdays The Independent, 18 June 1994 He retired from the Army in 1995.
Later life Following his retirement from the Army, he became Chief Executive of Dechert LLP.School of Oriental and African Studies He was also a member of the advisory board of the School of Oriental and African Studies and a Trustee of The Foyle Foundation.
Personal life Duffell married Ann Murray Woodd, daughter of Colonel Basil Bethune Neville Woodd, of a landed gentry family of Shynewood, Shropshire; they have a son, the cricketer Charlie Duffell, and daughter, Rachel.Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. II, ed. Peter Townend, Woodd formerly of Shynewood pedigreeWho's Who in Hong Kong, ed. Kevin Sinclair, Database Publishing (Hong Kong), 1984, p. 100
Works Duffell, Peter (2019), Gurkha Odyssey: Campaigning for the Crown, Pen & Sword (with illustrations by Ken Howard)
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