Robert Lock (British Army officer)
# 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.

## Career

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

He was awarded the CB in 1937 and KBE in 1944.

## Family

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 in 1944.

