George Gordon-Lennox
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Lieutenant-General Sir George Charles Gordon-Lennox, KBE, CB, CVO, DSO (29 May 1908–11 May 1988) was a British soldier.
Gordon-Lennox was the eldest child of Lord Bernard Gordon-Lennox and a grandson of the 7th Duke of Richmond. He was educated at Eton and was a Page of Honour to George V from 1921–1924. After Eton, he trained at Sandhurst and fought with the Grenadier Guards in World War II, where he was wounded, awarded the DSO and mentioned in despatches.
In 1952, Gordon-Lennox was awarded the CVO and in 1959, he became Commandant of Sandhurst and then Director-General of Military Training at the War Office in 1963. A year later, he was knighted and transferred to Scotland where he was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle until 1966. In 1965, he became a Colonel in the Gordon Highlanders and his last post was in retirement, as King of Arms of the Order of the British Empire from 1968 until 1983.
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| Preceded by Guy Dugdale |
Page of Honour 1921–1924 |
Succeeded by Edward Legge-Bourke |
| Preceded by Sir Roderick Carr |
King of Arms of the Order of the British Empire 1968–1983 |
Succeeded by Sir Anthony Morton |
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