Seymour Gilbart-Denham

Sir Seymour Vivian Gilbart-Denham, KCVO (1939–2018) was a British Army officer and courtier.

Born on 10 October 1939, Gilbart-Denham was the son of Major Vivian Maurice Gilbart-Denham and his wife, Diana Mary, daughter of Henry Ralph Beaumont, JP, and maternal granddaughter of Sir James Gibson-Craig, 3rd Baronet.

[1] Vivian Gilbart-Denham was an officer in the Irish Guards and was killed in action in 1940;[2] he was the son of Sir James Denham.

He then trained at Mons Officer Cadet School[2] and was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1960 as a 2nd lieutenant.

[6] He went with the regiment to Southeast Asia;[2] in 1967, he ceased to be Adjutant[5] and was appointed second-in-command in Arthur Gooch's squadron stationed in Hong Kong.