Michael Hobbs (British Army officer)

Major General Sir Michael Frederick Hobbs KCVO CBE (born 28 February 1937) is a former commander in the British Army who was later a charity director and Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor.

Educated at Eton College,[1] Hobbs was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards on 14 April 1956 as a second lieutenant to fulfil his national service obligation.

[9] He was appointed Director of Army Public Relations at the Ministry of Defence and served there from January 1984 to July 1985.

[14] Sir Michael became the Governor of the Military Knights of Windsor in 2000 and retired from this post in July 2012.

[19][20] Hobb's grandmother was a lady in waiting to Queen Mary wife of George V.[21]