Charlotte Louise Gordon-Lennox

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: 1960

Notes:

Joined the Royal Navy in 1957 as a cadet at the Britannia R.N.College, Dartmouth. Promoted to Sub-Lieut. 1960 and saw service in H.M.S. Salisbury, H.M.Y. Britannia and later as the First Lieut. of H.M.S. Squirrel on fishery protection duties. After promotion to Lieut. he served in the first commission of H.M.S. Kent, before being appointed as A.D.C. to the unified Commander-In-Chief Far East in Singapore during the Indonesian Confrontation Campaign 1964-66. After returning to the UK, appointed as Operations and Navingating Officer of destroyer H.M.S. Cavalier and thence to H.M.S. Vernon to qualify as an anti-submarine warfare specialist.

1968-69 served in H.M.S. Tenby as an anti-submarine and Darmouth Cadet Training Officer. Promoted to Lieut. Commander 1970, just after arrival at Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment, where he helped to specify the requirements for the Navy's future digital computer weapon systems, putting theory into practice in the first commission of H.M.S. Bristol as the anti-submarine officer.

1974-76 on staff of the Flag Officer, First Flotilla and promoted to Commander in 1976. Served in the Operational Requirements Directorate of the Naval Staff in the Ministry of Defence before being appointed in Command of H.M.S. Active in December 1978.

Interests: fishing, shooting, gardening, golf and cricket.

Michael married Jennifer Susan Gibbs, CVO [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rear Admiral Sir Alexander Henry Charles Gordon-Lennox KCVO CB DSO (9 April 1911 – 4 July 1987) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gordon-Lennox_(Royal_Navy_officer)

Alexander married Barbara Steele on 12 Nov 1936. Barbara (daughter of Maj Gen Julian Steele and Evelyn Loch) died in 1987. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 22 Mar 1921, Westminster, London

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Born at 35 Gloucester Place, St. Marylebone, 11 February and baptised 22 March 1921 at Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley St., Westminster. Educated at Eton College. Killed in action at Nijmegen 20 September 1944.


Died:
Killed in Action

Vicary married Jean Frances Hambro, CVO on 19 Sep 1942 in Westminster, London. Jean (daughter of Captain Angus Valdimar Hambro and Vanda Dorothea St John Charlton) was born on 22 Feb 1923 in Paddington, London; died on 7 Dec 2017. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1999, Arnbarrow, Laurence Kirk, Kincardineshire, Scotland
• Residence: 2003, Maryland, Worplesdon, Surrey

Notes:

Daughter of Capt. Angus Valdimar Hambro, D.L., J.P., Milton Abbas, Dorset (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry'. Born 22 February 1923 in London. Married 19 September 1942 at Guards Chapel. Married secondly 29 May 1946, Rev. Hon. Andrew Charles Victor Elphinstone, younger son of 16th Baron Elphinstone; he died 19 March 1975. Maried thirdly 14 April 1980 Lt. Col. J.W.R. Woodroffe of Arnbarrow, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire.

A Lady-in-Waiting to H.M.The Queen when Princess Elizabeth, 1945. An Extra Woman of the Bedchamber to H.M. The Queen. C.V.O. (1953). Address: Maryland, Worplesdon, Guildford, Surrey.

Bernard married Evelyn Loch. Evelyn was born on 29 Jul 1876 in Onchan, Isle of Man; died on 18 Jun 1944 in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Julian married Evelyn Loch. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile
• Baptism: 8 Sep 1888, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
• Residence: 1891, London
• Residence: 1901, Eton, Buckinghamshire
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 22; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Arrival: 25 Aug 1920, New York, USA

Notes:

2nd Baron Hunsdon (1935) and 4th Baron Aldenham (1939). Born at High Canons aforesaid 11 August and baptised 8 September 1888 at Aldenham. Educated at Eton College 1901-7; matric. Cambridge (Trinity College) 1907; 2nd class History and B.A. 1910. Died at Harlow Hospital, 30 May 1969 and was cremated and ashes buried at St. Dunstan's, Hunsdon.

He was in the Eton School Football XI 1906. Won Royal Tennis, single and doubles, Cambridge v. Oxford 1910. Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1910, and was with their Australian branch, Gibbs, Bright & Co., 1912-14. After the Great War rejoined the London firm 1919; partner thereof from 1920. Director of, amongst other Companies, Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld., from 1921 (Chairman 1928-29), Australian Pastoral Co. Ld. from 1922 (Chairman from 1929), Westminster Bank Ld. from 1924, English Scottish and Australian Bank, Ld., from 1920. On the Livery of the Merchant Taylors Company from 1910, on the Court from 1923, Master 1932.

2nd Lieut. Hertfordshire Yeomanry (Territ) Feb. 1911-15; temp. Lieut. July, 1915, Capt., Dec., 1916. In the Great War; mobilised with the Herts. Yeomanry in August 1914 he served with them in Egypt Sep. 1914 to Aug. 1915, in Gallipoli August to October 1915 and in Palestine June 1916 to April 1917 and to XXI Corps Staff Intelligence there December 1917-January 1918. Served with the 'Dunster Force' in Mesopotamia and Persia January 1918 to January 1919 and with Herts. Yeomanry in Asia Minor January to April 1919. Mentioned twice in Despatches (1917 and 1918). Medals, 1914-15 Star, British war medal and Allies (Victory) medal.

Deputy Chairman Westminster Bank, 1st January 1933; Chairman of Bank 1st April 1950; resigned from Chairmanship 31 December 1961 but remained on Board, President, British Association of Bankers 1954-55.

Portrait in oils, painted by Simon Elwes, soon after becoming Chariman, in possession of Westminster Bank, Lothbury, EC2.

Walter married Beatrix Elinor Paul on 6 Nov 1919 in St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London. Beatrix (daughter of Herbert Woodfield Paul and Elinor Budworth Ritchie) was born on 28 Jul 1890 in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London; died on 17 Jul 1978 in St Dunstan's, Hunsdon; was buried in St Dunstan's, Hunsdon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1 Aug 1890, Chelsea, London
• Baptism: 7 Sep 1890, Finedon, Northamptonshire
• Residence: 1901, Chelsea, London
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Forest Row, Sussex; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter
• Death: 17 Jul 1978, Kingsclere & Whitchurch, Hampshire

Notes:

Only daughter of Herbert Woodfield Paul, M.P. of Cherry Orchard, Forest Row, Sussex (and widow of Algernon Hyde Villers, by whom she had issue, for which see Clarendon in 'Burke's Peerage'), by Elinor, daughter of William Ritchie. Born at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 28 July and baptised 1 September 1890 at Finedon, Northants. Married 6 November 1919 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. Died 17 July 1978 and was cremated and ashes buried at St Dunstan's, Hunsdon, Herts.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Director, Hambros Bank; Captain, Dorset Yeomanry

Angus married Vanda Dorothea St John Charlton on 29 Apr 1916 in Chelsea Holy Trinity, London. Vanda (daughter of St John Charlton and Elizabeth Bronwen Hughes) was born on 6 Aug 1885 in Holywell, Flintshire; died on 18 Nov 1981 in Hill House, Milton Abbas, Dorset; was buried in Milton Abbas, Dorset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]