MVWI September meeting - Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, Brigadier Neil Baverstock CBE

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Brigadier Neil Baverstock was born in Zambia in 1958 and was educated in Zimbabwe, Edinburgh, St Andrews University and King’s College, London. He served for 36 years in the British Army, initially with the Royal Green Jackets before transferring to the Royal Irish Regiment. He worked in Northern Ireland, Germany, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in staff appointments in the UK and the Ministry of Defence. His last tour in the Army was in command of 145(South) Brigade based in Aldershot. He is currently the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod in the House of Lords, an appointment that he assumed in July 2013.

He is a member of the Royal College of Defence Studies which he attended in 2008 during the course during which he took an MA in International Relations. He was awarded a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours list in June 2023 for services to Parliament and the Queen’s funeral.

Brigadier Baverstock is married with four children. His wife, Alison, is a Professor of Publishing Studies at Kingston University and an ordained priest in the Church of England. A keen cyclist, he also plays cricket and climbs, something that he sees as entirely consistent with his healthy aversion to DIY and gardening.

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