Aidan Sprot

Lieutenant Colonel Aidan Mark Sprot (19 January 1919 – 28 January 2021) was a British Army officer, who won an immediate Military Cross and later served as the Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale. Early life The son of Mark and Meliora Sprot, and educated at Stowe School, Sprot was forbidden from following his father into the army, and initially worked as a banker in the City of London. His sister Celia became Viscountess Whitelaw. Military career On the outbreak of World War II, Sprot joined his father's old regiment, the Royal Scots Greys and was commissioned in 1941. Serving in Palestine on internal security duties, Sprot then moved with his regiment to the Western Desert, where he took part in the Second Battle of El Alamein. In September 1943, he served during Operation Avalanche, the landings at Salerno.