Robert Lock (British Army officer)

Sir Robert Lock
Born(1879-12-13)13 December 1879
Died25 July 1957(1957-07-25) (aged 77)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
BranchBritish Army
Years of service1898–1938
1939–1943
RankMajor General
UnitRoyal Artillery
CommandsChemical Defence Experimental Station (1928–32)
Battles / warsFirst World War
Second World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Companion of the Order of the Bath
RelationsArthur Pole Penton (father-in-law)
Ursula Vaughan Williams (daughter)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (son-in-law)

Major General Sir Robert Ferguson Lock, KBE, CB (13 December 1879 – 25 July 1957) was a British Army officer in the Royal Artillery who served during the First World War.[1]

Military career

Major General Lock and Mrs. Lock watching Mrs. Kay Thompson operate a clicking machine at the General Engineering Company (Canada) munitions plant, May 1943.

Lock was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 23 June 1898, and was promoted to lieutenant on 16 February 1901.[2] He was seconded to take a course of instruction at the School of Gunnery in 1903.[3]

Lock was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1937 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1944.[4]

Family

Lock married Kathleen Beryl Penton, daughter of Arthur Pole Penton, in 1910. They had two daughters and a son, Robert John Penton Lock, who was killed in action on 26 March 1944 while serving with the 28th Mountain Regiment in Burma in the Second World War. Their daughter, Ursula, was a noted poet who married the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.[5]

References

  1. ^ The Times, Saturday, Jul 27, 1957; pg. 8; Issue 53904; col F Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert Lock
  2. ^ Hart's Army list, 1904
  3. ^ "No. 27513". The London Gazette. 6 January 1903. p. 108.
  4. ^ ‘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
  5. ^ "Casualty Details: Lock, Robert John Penton". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
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