Bernard Gordon Lennox

Major-General Bernard Charles Gordon Lennox, (19 September 1932 – 27 December 2017) was a senior British Army officer. He served as Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin from October 1983 to December 1985.

Military career
Born the eldest son of Lieutenant General Sir George Gordon Lennox, and educated at Eton College, Bernard Gordon Lennox was Page of Honour to King George VI. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1953.

He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Grenadier Guards in 1974. He went on to be on the Army Directing Staff at the RAF Staff College in 1976, Commander of 20th Armoured Brigade in 1978 and Chief of Staff for South East District in 1981. He was promoted to major general in 1983 and appointed GOC (general officer commanding) of the British Sector in Berlin. Finally he became the Senior Army Member at the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1986. He retired from the Army in 1988.

He lived at Eversley in Hampshire.

He died on 27 December 2017 at the age of 85.

Family
In 1958 he married Sally-Rose Warner: they went on to have three sons.