Robert Lock (British Army officer)

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.

[4] 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 on 26 March 1944.

[5] The inscription chosen for the gravestone for their son Robert was: "AS GOLD IN THE FURNACE HATH HE TRIED THEM, AND RECEIVED THEM".

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