Colonel Sir Piers Henry George Bengough KCVO OBE DL (24 May 1929 – 18 April 2005) was Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot, in the Royal Household 1984–1997.
He was educated at Eton College and served in The Royal Hussars 1948–1973, retiring as a Lieutenant-Colonel (promoted to Colonel in 1984).
He was Honorary Colonel 1983–1990, and was a member of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms from 1981 (retiring in 1999), and died in 2005.
He was made a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Hereford and Worcester on 29 June 1987.
[3] He joined the Grand Military Race Committee in 1963 and was appointed Chairman in 1985 on the retirement of General Sir Cecil Blacker.