James Weatherall


Sir James Lamb Weatherall was a Royal Navy officer who served as Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps from 1992 to 2001.

Naval career

Educated at Gordonstoun School and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Weatherall joined the Royal Navy in 1954. He was given command of the frigate HMS Andromeda in 1982, serving with her in the Falklands War, and took command of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in 1985. He joined the staff of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe in 1987 and then became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in 1989 before retiring in 1991.
In retirement he became Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps and a Trustee of the UK arm of the World Wide Fund for Nature. Weatherall also served as Warden of Box Hill School a Public School in Mickleham near Dorking in Surrey, England

Family

In 1962 he married Hon. Jean Stewart Macpherson, daughter of the first and last Baron Drumalbyn; they have two sons and three daughters. He died on 18 March 2018.