Colonel Sir Peter Hilton, KCVO, MC & Two Bars, KStJ, JP, DL (30 June 1919[1] – 30 May 1995)[2] was a senior officer in the British Army and a businessman.
A son of Major General Richard Hilton and his wife Phyllis Woodin, he was educated at Malvern College.
After being evacuated from Dunkirk, on 1 January 1941 he was promoted to lieutenant[4] and served in the Western Desert with the 7th Armoured Division from 1942 to 1943, seeing action at El Alamein.
[5] In March 1959, he bought Alton Manor, Idridgehay, in the same county, which was then occupied by a life tenant, Brigadier General E. C. W. D. Walthall, but on his death in 1962, Hilton moved into the house, with his wife and two sons.
On 12 June 1993, he was made a Knight Commander in the Royal Victorian Order in the Birthday Honours List.