Air Chief Marshal Sir John Gingell, GBE, KCB, KCVO (3 February 1925 – 10 December 2009)[1] was a senior Royal Air Force commander and Gentleman usher of the Black Rod.
The son of Ernest (1895–1981) and Hilda (née Attwood; 1894–1957) Gingell, he was educated at St Boniface's Catholic College, Plymouth.
[2] A few months later he transferred into the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, serving in the Fleet Air Arm.
[2] In retirement Gingell served as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in the Houses of Parliament until 1992.
[3] In 1949 he married Prudence Johnson; the couple had two sons and a daughter, John, Nicholas and Alexandra.