David Nickson, Baron Nickson

He was Captain in the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland.

[citation needed] Nickson was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1981 Birthday Honours[2] and was promoted to Knight Commander (KBE) in the 1997 Birthday Honours.

[3] He was created a life peer in the 1994 New Year's Honours and took his seat on 22 March 1994 as Baron Nickson, of Renagour in the District of Stirling.

[5] Nickson was educated at Eton College, where his father was a Housemaster, then at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he became a Senior Under Office before being commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1949.

His last job was Staff Captain 1st Guards Brigade before he left the Army in 1954.