Frank McEachren

McEachren died on 31 March 1995 in Toronto at the age of 76. He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. After his death, his widow donated photo albums, video footage and souvenirs documenting his career, friendship with the royal family and philanthropic work to the Archives of Ontario.

From 1980–1982, McEachren was Grand Prior of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in Canada. He was a founding member of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada and involved in the creation of the Canadian Heraldic Authority.

A personal friend of Queen Elizabeth II, in 1977, when Prince Andrew attended Lakefield College School near Peterborough, Ontario, McEachren was his guardian. He often hosted the Prince at his cottage in Muskoka.

In 1955, he began work in the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario's office. He served as chief aide-de-camp to six Lieutenant Governors: Louis Orville Breithaupt, John Keiller MacKay, William Earl Rowe, William Ross Macdonald, Pauline Mills McGibbon and John Black Aird. He retired in 1982.

After the war, he began his career with Eaton's, his wife's family's department store chain, beginning as public relations manager in 1944. In 1951, he became the first director of the newly established Public Relations Office.

He was educated at St. Andrew's College before attending Trinity College at the University of Toronto, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1940.

McEachren joined the 48th Highlanders of Canada in 1940 and served with the regiment during the Allied invasion of Sicily and the following Italian campaign in World War II. He later became Honorary Colonel of the 48th Highlanders.

In May 1940, McEachren married Florence Mary Eaton (1919–2012), daughter of Sir John Craig Eaton and Lady Eaton, of the prominent Eaton family, at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church. They met at Florence's debutante ball hosted by her mother at the Eaton Auditorium. They had one son Gilbert Flavelle McEachren (1947–1984) and adopted a daughter Signy McEachren Farncomb (born 1953).

Colonel Frank Flavelle McEachren CM CVO ED CD ADC (6 June 1918 – 31 March 1995) was a Canadian Army officer and businessman. He served as chief aide-de-camp to six Lieutenant Governors of Ontario.

McEachren was born on 6 June 1918 in Surrey, England, to Lieutenant Colonel Frank Yeigh McEachren (1889–1957) and Clara Ellsworth Flavelle OBE (1890–1966). His maternal grandfather was businessman Sir Joseph Flavelle, 1st Bt., the last Canadian to be granted a baronetage. He had one younger sister, June McEachren Barrett (1922–1997). His parents divorced in 1939.