Lord Bernard Gordon Lennox - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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May 01, 1878 Died on 10 Nov 1914 (aged 36)

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About Lord Bernard Gordon Lennox

  • Major Lord Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox (1 May 1878 – 10 November 1914), was a British Army officer. Gordon-Lennox was the third son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, by his first wife Amy Mary, daughter of Percy Ricardo, of Bramley Park, Guildford, Surrey.
  • Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond and Brigadier-General Lord Esmé Gordon-Lennox were his elder brothers.
  • He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
  • He was a major in the Grenadier Guards and served in the Second Boer War, in China, and in World War I, where he was killed in action in November 1914, aged 36.
  • He was buried in Zillebeke Churchyard Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery.
  • There is a window dedicated to him at the Gordon Chapel in Scotland. Gordon-Lennox appeared in a single first-class cricket match for Middlesex against Gloucestershire in the 1903 County Championship.Gordon-Lennox married Evelyn, daughter of Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch, in 1907.
  • They had two sons, Lieutenant-General Sir George Gordon-Lennox and Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Gordon-Lennox.
  • Lady Bernard Gordon-Lennox remained a widow until her death in June 1944, during World War II, aged 67, when a V-1 flying bomb hit the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks.

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