Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Blair Aubyn Stewart-Wilson, KCVO (17 July 1929 – 24 May 2011), was equerry to Queen Elizabeth II and Deputy Master of the Household from 1976 to 1994.
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Early life
Born Blair Aubyn Wilson in Chelsea to Lieut. Aubyn Harold Raymond Wilson and his wife, Muriel Athelstan Hood Stewart.
In May 1934, his father died while living in Australia. His mother, who was lady laird of Balnakeilly, married secondly Major Charles Greville Bartlett Stevens, and took the name of Stewart-Stevens. Stewart-Wilson was educated at Sandroyd School and Eton College.
His older brother Ralph Stewart-Wilson (1923–2015) eventually succeeded their mother as laird of Balnakeilly in Perthshire.
Career
A 19-year-old Stewart-Wilson joined the Scots Guards on 14 July 1949, and in 1952 was commissioned as a lieutenant into the Atholl Highlanders (the Duke of Atholl's private regiment). He served in the United Kingdom, the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), and the Far East. From 1955 to 1957, he was adjutant of the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards, and then from 1957 to 1959 was aide-de-camp to the governor-general of New Zealand, Lord Cobham. In 1960–1962 he was equerry to the Duke of Gloucester. He was regimental adjutant from 1966 to 1968. He was staff qualified, but did not attend the Staff College, Camberley.