Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde

John Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde, KStJ (12 December 1897 – 17 June 1957) was a Scottish nobleman, the son of James, 3rd Lord Inverclyde and Charlotte Mary Emily née Nugent-Dunbar.

He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College in Berkshire. Joining the Scots Guards, he was wounded by a German bullet while going 'over the top' in France. He reached the rank of Lieutenant in the First World War and served as a captain with the Scots Guards in the Second World War.

As a subaltern in the Scots Guards he fought in France until wounded by a bullet through the palm of one hand. Gangrene impeded swift healing, but at last he was ready to return to the front and confided in a friend that if he had to die for it, he would try to win a decoration for gallantry in action to make his father proud of him. But instead of being sent overseas he was shunted into a 'cushy' job at the War Office.

Burns succeeded as Lord Inverclyde on the death of his father on 16 August 1919, and was invested as a Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John and admitted to the Royal Company of Archers.

He married, firstly, Olive Sylvia Sainsbury, daughter of Arthur Sainsbury, millionaire owner of a large chain of grocery shops, on 23 November 1926. They divorced in Scotland in 1928. Secondly he married June Howard-Tripp, daughter of Walter Howard-Tripp, on 21 March 1929. As simply 'June', she had been a well established star of revue and silent films, but gave up her showbusiness career on marriage, although this too was to end in divorce, in 1933.

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