General Sir Alexander George Hamilton Harley, KBE, CB (born 3 May 1941) is a retired British Army officer and former Adjutant-General to the Forces.
Educated at Caterham School, Alexander Harley was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1962.
[3] He went on to be Assistant Chief of Defence Staff in 1990 and Commander of British Forces Cyprus and Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas in 1993.
[3] Harley became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Commitments) in 1995[4] and Adjutant-General to the Forces in 1997[5] before he retired in August 2000.
[9] In retirement he also became an advisor to Thales Air Systems and a vice-president of Raleigh International.