Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart

Major General Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart, CB, DSO, MC, KStJ (22 August 1919 – 15 June 1999), styled Lord Greenock until 1927, was a British Army officer who served as Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin from 1970 until his retirement in 1973.

[3] He next transferred to the Operations Division of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in 1967 and was appointed General Officer Commanding Yorkshire District in 1969.

[3] Finally he was appointed Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1970: he retired in 1973.

[3] In retirement from the British Army, Cathcart became a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

[3] In 1946 Cathcart married Rosemary Clare Marie Gabrielle Smyth-Osborne.