Robert Lock (British Army officer)
Sir Robert Ferguson Lock KBE CB (13 December 1879 – 25 July 1957) was a British major general in the Royal Artillery who served during the First World War.[1] He was awarded the CB in 1937 and KBE in 1944.[2]
In 1910 he married Kathleen Beryl Penton, daughter of Arthur Pole Penton CB, CMG, CVO in 1910. They had a daughter Ursula whose second husband was the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, another daughter, and a son Robert John Penton Lock who also served as an artilleryman in the Second World War, dying in 1944.[3]
References
- ^ The Times, Saturday, Jul 27, 1957; pg. 8; Issue 53904; col F Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert Lock
- ^ ‘PENTON, Maj.-Gen. Arthur Pole’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 6 June 2013
- ^ http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2034701/LOCK,%20ROBERT%20JOHN%20PENTON
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