Sir Robert Gilmour, 1st Baronet


Brigadier-General Sir Robert Gordon Gilmour, 1st Baronet, , born Robert Gordon Wolrige Gordon, was a British army officer and Captain of the Royal Company of Archers.

Biography

Gilmour joined the British Army when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 25 January 1878. He served in the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879, was promoted to lieutenant on 1 July 1881, and served in the Sudanese campaign 1884-85. Promotion to captain followed on 23 July 1890, and to major on 25 August 1896. He served in the 2nd Battalion of the regiment in South Africa during the Second Boer War 1900-02. For his service in the war, he received the Distinguished Service Order on 29 November 1900, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the October 1902 South African honours list. Following his return to the United Kingdom, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 28 October 1902, and appointed in command of the 2nd battalion, Grenadier Guards. He served as Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod from 1917 until his death.
He was later a Captain of the Royal Company of Archers, and was on 29 July 1926 created a Baronet, of Liberton and Craigmillar in the County of Midlothian.
He lived in Inch House a large 17th-century house on the south side of Edinburgh.

Family

Gilmour married on 19 October 1889 Lady Susan Lygon, 2nd daughter of the 6th Earl of Beauchamp. They had four children:
Lady Susan Lygon Gilmour was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1936 "or services in connection with the Queen's Institute of District Nursing in Scotland." She may also be styled as Dame Susan Gilmour. She died in 1962, aged 91.