Anthony James Moxon Lowther-Pinkerton,[1] LVO, MBE, DL (born 28 September 1960) is the former Private Secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and to Prince Harry.
He was appointed on 2 May 2005 and resigned as full-time Private Secretary with effect from September 2013, remaining for a single day a week in order to mentor and advise the younger staff who shall have to succeed him.
[3] Brought up in Alderton, Suffolk,[4] he is descended from the Lowther landed gentry family, and shares a descent from the 1st Earl of Bessborough with his royal employers.
Lowther-Pinkerton served with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, but was attached to the Special Air Service (SAS) throughout his 20-year army career, where he was described as an especially capable officer.
In the mid-to-late 1990s he was in the Balkans for the strategic policy review by the Ministry of Defence; reportedly in 1994 as part of a four-man SAS "Joint Communication Organisation" in Bosnia.