Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Robert Johnston, KCB, CVO, OBE (27 October 1929 – 10 November 2024) was a British Army officer.
He served as Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operational Requirements) from 1981 to 1982, and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 1996 to 2004.
[3] From Sandhurst he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1949,[4] promoted lieutenant in 1951,[5] and captain in 1955,[6] when he also transferred to The Queen's Bays.
[7] He served in Germany, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Northern Ireland, and Borneo before being posted as an instructor at the Army Staff College from 1965 to 1967.
[3][2][18] As Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, he was an ex officio member of the Court of the University of Southampton.