Major-General David John St Maur Tabor, CB, MC (1922-2004)
Michael Rhodes
General Officer Commanding the Eastern District, 1974-77, former
Silver Stick in Waiting and a cousin of the Queen, died 18 May, 2004.
He was 81.
David John St Maur Tabor was born 5 October, 1922, the third son of
Harry Ernest Tabor, of Beech House, Redcoats Green, Hitchin,
Hertfordshire, by his wife Madeline Frances, daughter of Francis Abel
Smith, of Wilford House, Nottinghamshire, by his wife, Madeline St
Maur, daughter of the Rev. Henry Seymour, scion of the Dukes of
Somerset.
He was educated at Eton College, and the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst.
Career: served in the Second World War as a 2nd Lieutenant, Royal
Horse Guards, 1942, and later in North West Europe, 1944-45 (was
wounded in 1944); promoted Major in 1946; Lieutenant-Colonel
Commanding, Royal Horse Guards, 1960; Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding
the Household Cavalry, and Silver Stick in Waiting, 1964; Colonel,
1964; Brigadier, 1966; Commander, Berlin Infantry Brigade, 1966;
Commander, British Army Staff and Military Attache at Washington,
United States,, 1968; Royal College of Defence Studies, 1971; promoted
Major-General, 1972.
Maj-Gen Tabor, of Compton Abdale, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, was
awarded the Military Cross in 1944, and created CB in 1977.
He was twice married, firstly, in 1955, to the Hon Pamela Roxane
Nivison, second daughter of the 2nd Baron Glendyne, by whom he had two
sons, Patrick and Andrew. Mrs Tabor died in 1987. He then married
secondly, 1989, (Beatrice) Marguerite, widow of Colonel Peter
Arkwright, late the 11th Hussars, and second (twin) daughter of Capt
Francis Reynolds Verdon, of Littlefields, Sidbury, Devon.
Michael Rhodes (please delete the x to e-mail me)
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