Timothy Granville-Chapman

General Sir Timothy John Granville-Chapman, GBE, KCB, ADC Gen (born 5 January 1947) is a former Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces. He presently holds the ceremonial position of Master Gunner, St James's Park.

Military career
Educated at Charterhouse and Christ's College, Cambridge, Granville-Chapman was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1968. He went on to be an instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and then took a staff job in Military Operations in the Ministry of Defence. Later he became Military Assistant to the Commander 1 (BR) Corps before being appointed commanding officer of 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (1RHA) in Hohne, Germany.

He was made the Chief of the General Staff's author for the first version of the British Military Doctrine and then went on to be Assistant Director in the Defence Policy Staff at the Ministry of Defence.

He was made commander of an armoured brigade in Germany and then Director of Army Staff Duties. He became Assistant Chief of the General Staff in 1994. He became the first Commandant of the Joint Service Command and Staff College when he was appointed to that post on 28 June 1996. He was made Adjutant General in 2000, Commander-in-Chief, Land Command in 2003 and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff in 2005.

He was appointed Master Gunner, St James's Park on 21 July 2008.