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Biography
Major-General Sir Sebastian John Lechmere Roberts Ingletrough, KCVO, OBE (born 1954) is a retired senior British Army officer who served as the Senior Army Representative at the Royal College of Defence Studies.
Military career
Educated at Ampleforth College and Balliol College, Oxford, Roberts was commissioned into the Irish Guards in 1977.
He went on to be Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards in London and Northern Ireland. He was appointed Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District in 2003. He became the Senior Army Representative at the Royal College of Defence Studies in 2007 and retired in 2010.
He was also Colonel of the Irish Guards from 2008 to 2011 He was replaced by The Duke of Cambridge on 10 February 2011.
He is the author of Soldiering: The Military Covenant (1998).
Family
He is married to Elizabeth; they have four children.