Brigadier-General Lord Esmé Charles Gordon-Lennox KCVO CMG DSO DL (10 February 1875 – 4 May 1949) was a British Army officer and public official.

Esmé Gordon-Lennox was born at 3 Grosvenor Crescent, Belgravia into an ancient Scottish family,[2] the second son of Charles, Earl of March and Amy Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March, daughter of Percy Ricardo, of Bramley Park, Guildford, Surrey.

[6] Following the start of the First World War in 1914, he rejoined his regiment and went to France with the British Expeditionary Force.

His younger brother, Lord Bernard Gordon-Lennox, was killed early in the war at the Second Battle of Ypres.

[1] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 1939 New Year Honours in recognition of his services to Parliament.

They had one son:[1] Following his first injury during the war, Lord Esmé drifted away from his wife and by 1919 was involved with someone else.

When he was convalescent they discussed the future, but he refused to entertain the idea of resuming their family life together.... he said he liked somebody else.

He stated that he was not going back to [her], and the thing must end.Colonel North Dalrymple-Hamilton, who served with Lord Esmé in the Scots Guards, testified to the extent of his injuries.

She married Olof Rudolf Cederström, Baron Cederström, the Swedish widower of Italian opera singer Adelina Patti,[13] and he married Rosamund Lorys Palmer, daughter of Vice-Admiral Norman Craig Palmer.