Major General Charles Gerard Courtenay Vyvyan, CB, CBE (born 29 September 1944) is a retired British Army officer.
[1] His father was a diplomat, British Army veteran, and history fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[1] He studied modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966.
[3] After a two-year secondment to the Sultan of Oman's Land Forces in the mid-1970s, he became commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Royal Green Jackets in 1984, commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade in 1988 and Deputy Chief of Staff at Headquarters UK Land Forces in 1994.
[4] Vyvyan was a visiting fellow at the Eisenhower Institute in Washington, D.C., from 2002 to 2006.