Major-General Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, (3 November 1915 – 22 June 2006) served in the British Army from 1939 to 1967. He was Army director of public relations in the 1960s when the conduct of the Army's personnel came under scrutiny during the Profumo affair. Early life Monckton was the only son of Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, created Viscount in 1957, and Mary Adelaide Somes Colyer-Ferguson. He was born at Ightham Mote, which was owned by his maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas Colyer-Fergusson. Monckton's sister, Valerie Goulding, founded the Irish Central Remedial Clinic and became a member of the Seanad Éireann. His father was a British lawyer and politician, and became chief legal advisor to King Edward VIII during the Abdication Crisis in 1936. Education and Second World War Monckton was educated at The New Beacon, Harrow and then read agriculture at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1939. He converted to Roman Catholicism at the University of Cambridge. After Cambridge, Monckton immediately joined the Army, being commissioned into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, which was part of the British Expeditionary Force in France. He commanded a troop on the River Dyle in Belgium, facing the advance of the German blitzkrieg, and he received the Military Cross for his actions on 18 May 1940 in the retreat to the River Dendre. He was evacuated from Dunkirk with his regiment in 1940, and attended the Staff College, Camberley in 1941, serving as a brigade major from 1942 to 1943. He then attended the Command and General Staff School in the United States, before joining the 3rd (King's Own) Hussars in Palestine in 1944, moving with it to Italy in 1944. He then rejoined his own regiment in Germany. He attended RAF Staff College in 1949, and was then GSO2 in the 7th Armoured Division. Monckton was appointed as a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and was promoted to Bailiff Grand Cross of Obedience of the Order. He was an active supporter and long-serving member of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, in which he held the rank of Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Justice, and was a Knight Grand Cross of its sister order the Royal Order of Francis I. Korean War He returned to his regiment to command "A" squadron in the Korean War from 1951 to 1952,