Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde

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1897 – 1957

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Who was Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde?

John Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde, K.St.J, the son of James Cleland Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde of Castle Wemyss and Charlotte Mary Emily Nugent-Dunbar, was educated at Eton College, Eton, Berkshire and The Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire. Joining The Scots Guards, he was wounded by a German bullet while going 'over the top' in France. He reached the rank of Lieutenant in the First World War and served as a Captain with The Scots Guards in the Second World War.

As a subaltern in the Scots Guards he fought in France until wounded by a bullet through the palm of one hand. Gangrene impeded swift healing, but at last he was ready to return to the front and confided in a friend that if he had to die for it, he would try to win a decoration for gallantry in action to make his father proud of him. But instead of being sent overseas he was shunted into a "cushy' job at the War Office.

Burns succeeded to the title of 4th Baron Inverclyde on 16 August 1919 and was invested as a Knight, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and was admitted to The Royal Company of Archers.

He married, firstly, Olive Sylvia Sainsbury, daughter of Arthur Sainsbury, millionaire owner of a large chain of grocery shops, on 23 November 1926. They divorced in Scotland in 1928. Secondly he married June Howard-Tripp, daughter of Walter Howard-Tripp, on 21 March 1929. As simply 'June', she had been a well established star of revue and silent films, but gave up her showbusiness career on marriage, although this too was to end in divorce, in 1933.

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Born
Dec 12, 1897
Died
Jun 17, 1957

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on July 23, 2013

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