Major General Sir Christopher John Airy, KCVO, CBE (born 8 March 1934) is a retired British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding the London District and Major-General commanding the Household Division from 1986 to 1989.
Educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst,[1] Airy was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1954.
In 1974 he transferred to the Scots Guards on appointment as commanding officer of the 1st Battalion.
Promoted to major general in 1983, he served at the Royal College of Defence Studies,[4] before becoming Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District in 1986.
His daughter-in-law Lucinda is a granddaughter of Edward Clive Bigham, 3rd Viscount Mersey and Katherine Petty-FitzMaurice, Lady Nairne, eldest daughter of the 6th Marquess of Lansdowne.