Cross of that same order in the 1986 Birthday Honours and Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1991 Birthday Honours. He was Chancellor of the Order of St Michael and St George between 1994 and 2005. In 2001 he was given the rare honour of appointment as a Knight of the Order of the Garter. Personal life In 1956, Acland married Clare Anne Verdon; they had a daughter and two sons, including Simon Acland. Clare died in 1984; in 1987 he married Jennifer McGougan. He died in September 2021, at the age of 91. His death came one day before that of fellow Knight of the Garter Sir Timothy Colman. Ancestry References Sources 1930 births 2021 deaths Antony Arthur People educated at Eton College Royal Artillery officers Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Members of HM Diplomatic Service Principal Private Secretaries to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Luxembourg Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Spain Chairs of the Joint Intelligence Committee (United Kingdom) Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the United States Provosts of Eton College Knights of the Garter Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order 20th-century British diplomats