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[[Lieutenant General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] '''Sir Peter Royson Duffell''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|CBE|MC}} (born 19 June 1939) was [[Commander British Forces in Hong Kong|Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Educated at [[Dulwich College]], Duffell was [[Commissioned officer|commissioned]] into the [[2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)|2nd Gurkha Rifles]] in 1960.<ref name=foyle>[http://www.foylefoundation.org.uk/about-us/trustees/trustee.php?Id=2 Foyle Foundation]</ref> He served with his Regiment in [[Federation of Malaya|Malaya]] during the [[Malayan Emergency]] and in [[Borneo]] during the [[Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation]] as well as in [[Northern Ireland]].<ref name=foyle/> He was appointed [[Commander British Forces in Hong Kong|Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong]] in 1989 and then became Inspector-General Doctrine and Training in 1992.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/birthdays-1423464.html Birthdays] The Independent, 18 June 1994</ref> He retired from the Army in 1995.<ref name=foyle/><br />
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==Later life==<br />
Following his retirement from the Army, he became [[Chief Executive]] of [[Dechert]] LLP.<ref name=soas>[http://www.soas.ac.uk/devalumni/development/iab/ School of Oriental and African Studies] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310162601/http://www.soas.ac.uk/devalumni/development/iab/ |date=10 March 2010 }}</ref> He is also a member of the advisory board of the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]]<ref name=soas/> and a Trustee of The Foyle Foundation.<ref name=foyle/><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Duffell married Ann Murray Woodd, daughter of Colonel Basil Bethune Neville Woodd, of a landed gentry family of Shynewood, [[Shropshire]]; they have a son, the cricketer [[Charlie Duffell]], and daughter, Rachel.<ref>Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. II, ed. Peter Townend, Woodd formerly of Shynewood pedigree</ref><ref>Who's Who in Hong Kong, ed. Kevin Sinclair, Database Publishing (Hong Kong), 1984, p. 100</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/event/reflections-of-a-soldier-in-hong-kong-lecture-and-curry-lunch-16th-november-2018 |title="Reflections of a Soldier in Hong Kong". Lecture and Curry Lunch 16th November 2018 – The Gurkha Museum |publisher=Thegurkhamuseum.co.uk |date=2018-11-16 |accessdate=2019-08-27}}</ref><br />
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