Major

Major

Major is a rank of commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every military in the world.When used unhyphenated, in conjunction with no other indicator of rank, the term refers to the rank just senior to that of an Army captain and just below the rank of lieutenant colonel. ...

 Lord Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox (1 May 1878 – 10 November 1914), was a British soldier.

Gordon-Lennox was the third son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond

Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and Lennox KG, GCVO , styled Lord Settrington until 1860 and Earl of March between 1860 and 1903, was a British politician and peer....

, by his first wife Amy Mary, daughter of Percy Ricardo, of Bramley Park, Guildford

Guildford

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, Surrey

Surrey

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. Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond

Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond, 8th Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Gordon DSO MVO was a British Peer, the son of the 7th Duke by his first wife, Amy Mary Ricardo , daughter of Percy Ricardo, of Bramley Park and Mathilde Hensley. He became duke upon his...

 and Brigadier-General Lord Esmé Gordon-Lennox were his elder brothers. He was educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was a Major in the Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

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 and served in the Second Boer War

Second Boer War

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, in China

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 and in the First World War, where he was killed in action

Killed in action

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 in November 1914, aged 36. He was laid to rest at Zillebeke Churchyard Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Zillebeke Churchyard Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

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. Gordon-Lennox also appeared in a single first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 match for Middlesex

Middlesex County Cricket Club

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 against Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

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 in the 1903 County Championship

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Gordon-Lennox married the Honourable Evelyn, daughter of Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch

Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch

Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch GCB, GCMG was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator.-Military service:He was the son of James Loch, Member of Parliament, of Drylaw, Midlothian...

, in 1907. They had two sons, Lieutenant-General Sir George Gordon-Lennox

George Gordon-Lennox

Lieutenant-General Sir George Charles Gordon-Lennox, KBE, CB, CVO, DSO was a British soldier.-Military career:...

 and Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Gordon-Lennox. Lady Bernard Gordon-Lennox remained a widow until her death in June 1944, aged 67, when a V-1 flying bomb hit the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks

Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks

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