Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, GCB
Michael Rhodes
of Personnel and Logistics, MoD, 1971-74, Chairman of the Cheshire
Foundation, 1974-82, died 28 September, 2003. He was aged 86.
Christopher Neil Foxley-Norris was born 16 March, 1917, the son of
Major John Perceval Foxley-Norris, Cheshire Regiment (died 1922), by
his wife Dorothy Brabant Smith, & was educated at Westminster School
and Trinity College, Oxford (Hon Fellow, 1973).
Career: Commissioned into the RAFO, 1936; served in France, 1940;
Battle of Britain, 1940;; variously operational tours of duty in
wartime; MA 1946; Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff, 1963; Air
Officer Commanding No 224 Group, FEAF, 1964-67; Director-General RAF
Organization, Ministry of Defence, 1967-68; Commander-in-Chief, RAF
Germany & Commander NATO 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1968-70;
Vice-President Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies,
1979; Chairman, Trinity College Oxford Society, 1984-86; Ex RAF and
Dependants Severely Disabled Holiday Trust, 1984; President of the
Leonard Cheshire Housing Association from 1978; &C.
Foxley-Norris was awarded the DSO in 1945; OBE 1956; CB 1966; KCB
1969; GCB 1973.
He married in 1948, Joan Lovell Hughes, daughter of Percy Hughes, of
Crondall, Hampshire. No children.
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Michael Rhodes