Brigadier-General Sir Robert Gilmour, 1st Baronet, CB,DSO,CVO,JP,DL (27 February 1857 – 24 June 1939), born Robert Wolrige Gordon (he changed his name in 1887), was a British army officer and Captain of the Royal Company of Archers.
Following his return to the United Kingdom, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 28 October 1902,[4] and appointed in command of the 2nd battalion, Grenadier Guards.[5] He served as Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod (Order of the Thistle) from 1917 until his death. He was also a JP and DL.[6]
From 1897 to 1938, he served as a member of the ruling council of the influential Edinburgh conservationist group the Cockburn Association.[7]
He lived in Inch House a large 17th-century house on the south side of Edinburgh.[8]
He was born Robert Wolrige Gordon in 1857 and added the name surname Gilmour on succeeding to the estates of his great uncle, Walter James Little Gilmour of Craigmillar (1807-1887).
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Gilmour married on 19 October 1889 Lady Susan Lygon (24 May 1870 – 28 January 1962), 2nd daughter of the 6th Earl of Beauchamp. They had four children:
Lady Susan Gilmour (24 May 1870 – 28 January 1962) was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1936 for services in connection with the Queen's Institute of District Nursing in Scotland. She died in 1962, aged 91.
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