Barnaby Charles Gordon-Lennox

Hamish married Susannah Coy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Robert married Janet M. Knight [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Mar 1921, Westminster, London

Notes:

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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.