| 词条 | Gerald Loxley |
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| name = Gerald Loxley | image = | caption = Major Gerald Loxley at Ledbury in 1946 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|1|31|df=y}} | death_date = {{Death date|1950|9|29|df=y}} | placeofburial_label = | placeofburial = | birth_place =Fairford, Gloucestershire | death_place =Hereford, Herefordshire | placeofburial_coordinates = | nickname = | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom|23px}} | branch = RNAS; Royal Air Force | serviceyears = 1915-1920 | rank = Major | unit = | commands = | battles = World War I | awards = Air Force Cross Légion d'honneur Corona d'Italia | relations = | laterwork = United Nations }}Major Gerald Herbert Loxley (1885–1950) was a decorated British aviator of the First World War deployed in military intelligence,[1] before serving with the United Nations.[2] BiographyBorn on 31 January 1885 at Fairford, Gloucestershire, a vicar's son,[3] he was named after his godfather Sir Herbert Brewer. Loxley attended Summer Fields School and Malvern College before going up to read Jurisprudence at Oriel College, Oxford.[4] His World War I service in the Royal Naval Air Service saw action as an air pilot{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} before he was appointed to a distinguished position in aerial reconnaissance,[5] advising the director-general of aircraft production (Ministry of Munitions) in Paris.[6] He was confirmed in the rank of Major upon the creation of the Royal Air Force in 1919. Later in life he worked as a diplomat at the United Nations Organization in Geneva.[7] FamilyThe 5th child and 4th son of the Revd Canon Arthur Smart Loxley, son of John Loxley of Norcott Court, near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire,[8] he was the only one of the Loxley brothers to survive the Great War.[9] In 1930 he married Alice Blundell Booth (died 1955, leaving no children), a descendant of that old Cheshire family.[10] Through Julia Maria Heath[11] a collateral ancestor of his was the poet Lord Byron; and, with Cornish ancestry, his family was also closely related to Lord Dover and the Duncombes.[12] After suffering a severe stroke, Loxley died on 29 September 1950 at St Mary's Hospital, Burghill, near Hereford. Honours and awardsLoxley received the Air Force Cross[13] and was invested as a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by Marshal Foch in 1919,[14] having been appointed Ufficiale of the Corona d'Italia in 1916.[2] He received many other military honours as well as being admitted as a Freeman of the City of London "for War Services".[15] See also{{Portal|Military history|United Kingdom}}
References1. ^[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31457/supplement/8986/data.pdf www.thegazette.co.uk] {{Commons category}}2. ^1 [https://archive.org/stream/oxforduniversity00univuoft#page/n159/mode/2up www.archive.org] 3. ^www.theclergydatabase.org.uk 4. ^[https://archive.org/details/oxforduniversity00univuoft Oxford University Roll of Service] 5. ^Navy List: RFC Naval Wing (RNAS) 6. ^www.kingscollections.org 7. ^[https://treaties.un.org/Pages/AdvanceSearch.aspx?tab=UN www.un.org] 8. ^www.thepeerage.com 9. ^www.fairfordhistory.org.uk 10. ^Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, qv. BOOTH, Bt 11. ^Byron: Letters and Journals, vol. 1, 1973,p.165; Lord Byron to the Hon. Mrs Augusta Leigh, 26 April 1808 12. ^www.british-history.ac.uk 13. ^Burke's Peerage & Baronetage (www.burkespeerage.com), qv. BOOTH, Bt: "2m Alice Blundell BOOTH, born 20 September 1908, married 10 September 1930 Major Gerald Herbert LOXLEY, AFC, Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, Croix de Guerre avec Palmes, late RAF (died without issue 29 September 1950), son of Rev Arthur Smart LOXLEY, Vicar of Fairford, Gloucestershire (see BYRON, B), and great-uncle of Elizabeth Patricia Loxley, Baroness Bingham of Cornhill (see BINGHAM OF CORNHILL, LP), and died without issue 29 August 1955". 14. ^www.legiondhonneur.fr 15. ^Freemen of the City of London online archive External links
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